Exhibition: First Friday Art Walk - Raw Materials

Raw Materials' explores the latent feelings, processes, and beneath-the-surface conditions that shape our actions and direct our lives. My folded-and-sewn Pocket Notes series, collected on a gridded ground of layered oil and cold wax, suggest the complexity of our inner communications. The Seeds series make use of repetitive shapes—those unseen seeds of lived life—that exist at varying levels of breakthrough. And the Torsos series echo human forms constructed from weathered collage fragments and bundled artist-made scraps. This collection—stitched together with tangled threads and irregular edges—suggests that human makeup is raw and beautiful. Like a body, each work in the show has its unique role, individually depicting small moments and decision points while working in concert to become a whole greater than its parts.