Recursive Tapestry No. 1

As a queer artist who grew up in the American south, I draw upon the language of grandiose hyperbole and colloquialism which I make visual through lens-based media works. With excess and sensuality, I conjure and construct fantasies of the familial as I conflate the real and the ideal. Recursive Tapestry mines the collective history of southern textiles as well as the experiences of my parents and grandparents who worked at the Chatham textile mill in western North Carolina. Compositing scanned collage alongside my own pictures, Recursive Tapestry exists as kaleidoscopic animation traversing the digital spaces I fabricate. In constant motion, the viewer is presented with a hypnotic meditation of materiality, fusing the then and now, queering the past and present.