I am a weaver before anything else. My practice spans multiple media and modes of working, but is at its core supported by a metaphorical understanding of woven cloth.
Fabric is constructed on a grid, a structure that is also used to organize city
streets, industrial farmland, data centers, surveyors’ maps, circuit boards, power lines, and interstates – in short, the structures which define modernity and its oppressive power over the natural world. Fiber is soft and flexible, and even when aligned in a grid, cannot be fully rigid and stiff, creasing, draping, and billowing in response to its environment. I interpret this as a literal queering of structure, in that queerness constitutes a deviation from linearity and straightness. This is why I weave – to understand how the oppressive hegemonic structures of a post-colonial, increasingly violent and fascistic world can be unsettled and challenged by ambiguity and flexibility.