My textiles practice combines surface design and embroidery. I stitch graphic imagery to tell a story. I am interested in showing the passage of time and connecting my work to history. I work with deception by hiding messages within the embroidery by changing the direction of the thread.  

These works concentrate on different historical events of things that choke someone. I found inspiration through World War II propaganda posters, second-hand personal domestic violence accounts, and historical records of trail scripts of the Salem witch trials to create the imagery. This bodiless garment connects three voices of the assaulted. They are suspended from the ceiling and looming over the viewer to be ghost-like and ceremonial. The proportions of the dress and especially the neck shape are made unwearable to emphasize the areas that are affected when choking. These works investigate a retelling of horrible events and circumstances