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My aim is to fuse ambiguous narrative imagery with illuminated, low-resolution form to create work of contemporary, contemplative, condensed beauty. I use textile materiality – bead weaving – with its connotations of labor-intensiveness, granular compositional control, and jewel-like preciousness both to enhance the visual impact of the imagery and to call attention to its artifice. Snapshots I take of traffic after dark become oblique, melancholy narratives, vehicle as dislocated protagonist amid a play of lights, uneasy, searching. Mannequins cropped from window displays become enigmatic figures in postures of stillness and solitude, watching, listening. Some of my influences include the elegiac tone of Eugene Atget, Gerhard Richter’s “redescriptions” of photographs, Tim Harding, and Magdelena Abakanowicz.
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