Installation view in Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York

            Bed Sheets. Sea-shells. Hand-me-ups, and things passed down… I am interested in the forms and fragments we assemble to create shelters of comfort. My process articulates my curiosity in memory: both a loss of information, and a preservation of it. Shifting, hiding, repeating, and reconnecting- I use fabric, clothing, and light, to investigate both the fixed and fluid characteristics of memory. This work is a collection of family heritage through patched, sewn, and mended fragments and impressions of what me, my mother, and my grandmother have chosen to wear as shelters. Becoming a shelter itself, this work invites me to consider the question, how can memory be a shelter?