The panel reads: “Long waits, dire conditions for migrants in US.”An article headline from the Journal Gazzette, February 10, 2026 It is not an easy sentence to sit with. It is not decorative. It is not abstract. It carries weight. As with life, The Weave of Life is not only about what is beautiful, soft, or comfortable. A true weaving holds tension. It holds contrast. It holds threads we might rather trim away. But if we remove every difficult strand, we are left with something dishonest. If...
18 days ago • 1 min read
There are certain images that stay with you. Years ago, I made a lino print of Quan Yin and she’s been tucked away in my studio. She’s moved with me through different spaces, different phases of life. But I couldn’t throw her away. As I’ve been building panels for Weave of Life, I’ve been asking myself: What deserves to be carried forward? What can be transformed instead of discarded? So I brought Quan Yin back out. In the video attached, you’ll see me carefully cutting her from the old print...
25 days ago • 1 min read
The first panels are officially underway. I’m currently working with fabric samples I collected last year through Zero Landfill Day at Wunderkammer Company. Some of the panels use the fabric just as it is, mounted directly onto the surface. Others begin to shift as I add encaustic and additional materials, letting the wax interact with the fibers in unexpected ways. I love how the fabric holds its own, but also how it changes when layered—becoming something new without losing its original...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Like a lot of artists, I have a tendency to hoard materials. Not in a chaotic way (there are nice neat stacks...), but in a this might be useful someday way. Over the last few years, I’ve been saving scraps and leftover parts from projects that didn’t quite work out—cuts that were almost right, materials that were good but not right for that moment. When I started Weave of Life, it felt important to begin there. For the initial batch of panels, I’m using scrap birch plywood left over from...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hello, and welcome. If you’re here, you’ve probably heard me mention Weave of Life somewhere—or maybe you stumbled in out of curiosity. Either way, I’m glad you’re here. Weave of Life is a long-term, large-scale mixed media project I’m currently working on. Over time, it will grow into a modular installation made up of hundreds of individual panels—each one small on its own, but meaningful as part of a larger whole. At its core, the project explores memory, nature, and community connection,...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read