Pillow Talk 2D

Pillow Talk is comprised of mixed media works that combine hand dyed and stained fabrics, knitting, encaustic, and paint. Hybridity is the crux in breaking barriers in a post post-modern world whose visual language still depends on a modernist ethos. Bringing the formal qualities of abstract painting into textiles and their associated techniques creates a cross-breeding of intuition and savvy to pull at memory and the longing for creature comforts as well as intellectual stimulation and the adventure of experimentation. The repetitive gestures involved in knitting and sewing, learned from my mother, provide solace during difficult times because of the way the processes invite the maker to go inward to find peace and enjoy solitude. I made these works in my search to understand what home means to me and where I might find it.