Raising Them - 2021

These pieces reflect my family lineage of textile artists and my personal interest in alternative process image making techniques. Historically women were given the task of sewing based on their lack of inclusion into education and the workforce. Quiltmaking came out of a need for warmth, but it also introduced a way for women to be expressive, to tell personal stories, express social concerns and make political statements. These quilts are my own personal investigations of what it means to be a mother, raising a child in a world that still subscribes to an antiquated definition of gender. By filtering gendered language and traditional masculine symbols through my own feminine lens, I am able to create objects that blur the lines of gender. They are expressions of my belief that we need to allow our boys to set their own definitions of what it means to be a man.