Curious Botanicals is an evolving series of wearable felt sculptures that imagine plants as sentient companions, guardians, and witnesses. Hand-felted from wool & plant fibers and finished with stitched and sculptural details, each piece occupies the space between flower and relic. Inspired by animism, ecological relationships, and the quiet intelligence of the natural world, these works invite us to wonder what might be looking back.

This collection of hand-embroidered, wearable art brooches is inspired by Louisiana’s vibrant flora, fauna, and folklore. Each brooch is crafted from felt and hand-embroidered, with some embellished with vintage Mardi Gras beads—reclaimed treasures that carry the festive spirit of South Louisiana. These brooches serve as tiny altars—personal talismans that celebrate place, memory, and resilience.

This series explores relationships between humans, nature, memory, and the unseen through abstract felted forms that function as contemporary altars. Using wool, flax, ramie, and silk, I create soft sculptures through wet and needle felting, transforming loose fibers into dense vessel-like forms through water, friction, and sustained pressure.

In this body of work, I draw from alchemical and Jungian ideas of transformation, particularly the concept of nigredo, exploring shadow work and the emergence of awareness through material process. Influenced by animism, ecofeminism, and the aesthetics of Catholic ritual I encountered growing up in South Louisiana, I approach fibers as collaborators and allow intuitive processes to guide the emergence of form. Through repetition, compression, and transformation, the series invites viewers to slow down and engage the quiet connections linking personal experience, collective memory, ecology, and inner life.

My Portals and Protectors series explores the interconnected relationships between humans, nature and the unseen. These felted sculptures and embroidered forms function as altars to invite reflection and reconnection with the living world.

Using wool, plant fibers, stones and found materials, I build textured forms through wet felting, needle felting and hand embroidery. My materials are gathered from thrift stores, estate sales, inherited collections, eco-conscious suppliers and the land surrounding my home in Northern New Mexico. Through this process of collecting and transformation, the materials carry traces of place, history, and human touch.

My practice is shaped by animism, ecofeminism, and ecological attunement. I approach materials as collaborators rather than passive supplies, allowing intuitive and responsive processes to guide the emergence of form. Influences include the aesthetics of Catholic iconography I encountered growing up in South Louisiana, as well as natural forms and practices that emphasize attention, care, and relationship.

Through slow, tactile processes and materially grounded forms, the work invites viewers to consider how care, presence, and interconnectedness might shape the ways we relate to each other and the natural world.

Formed from wool, plant fibers, water, and pure olive oil soap, these vessels embody a union of softness and strength. 

Fibers once loose and delicate are lovingly coaxed into resilient forms; soft to the touch, yet enduring in structure. Each vessel is a symbolic and functional container, expanding the ancient tradition of hand-made objects for holding and offering. Rooted in the textures, color ways and fiber art traditions  of Northern New Mexico, they carry both the intimacy of handwork and the quiet power of natural materials shaped through mindful processes.