Artist Statement

I create tactile meditations on grief, reverence, and renewal—cultivating a visual language shaped by decay, reclamation, and slow transformation. Working across fiber, found objects, and natural pigments, I use reclaimed and naturally altered materials not simply for sustainability, but as a manifesto: every element carries a history, a scar, a memory worth honoring.

My work blurs the boundary between mind and body, decay and reclamation, land and self. Rooted in the traditions of my South African heritage and the domestic crafts of my matrilineal line, I stitch, felt, and layer materials into palimpsests—surfaces where damage, beauty, and repair coexist. These acts of making echo the process of healing: nonlinear, frayed, and quietly persistent.

I am drawn to what is overlooked—weathered wool, rusted metal, discarded threads—and to what they reveal about the human impulse to consume, discard, and forget. In contrast, my practice resists disposability. It reveres slowness. It asks: what can be reclaimed, re-stitched, made tender again?

Whether rendering abstracted landscapes or visceral fiber forms, I treat decomposition not as neglect, but as evidence of life’s cycles. My pieces are at once eulogies for what’s been lost and love letters to what endures.