
Hints of Gladness, 2024
This 3-dimensional wall piece incorporates the artist’s interest in a sense of place and belonging while including traditional craft and textures of the natural environment. Through inherited objects including maps from her grandfather’s travels as a boilermaker and textiles from her grandmothers’ homes that the artist knits and manipulates, she combines the humble materials and methods of handcrafted fibers along with the curious textures she finds on the trails of the Great Smoky Mountains. Tying together her interest of ancestry, nature, and home, she explores the theme of beauty in the mundane and mystery in the overlooked.






