Commissions

& Other Works

Little Black Dress

Black and White Fabric Scraps, Quilted

2023 NFS

YMCA T-Shirt Quilt

Using YMCA T-Shirts, a Geometric composition was created with a hidden "Y" logo in the middle section.

The final quilt size was 52" x 75" and was quilted using City Sewing Room's walk-in long arm program

NFS

Bubble Machine I (2023)

Created as part of the weeklong Alegre 2023 Retreat under Paula Kovarak's "A Play in the Garden of Stitch" course, this abstract bubble machine is pieced from quilted scraps and a dinosaur quilt found on Marketplace.

This piece is wrapped on a canvas and measures 22"x24"

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Texts I Can't Send (2023)

This text bubble-shaped pillow is based in part on Sabrina Carpenter's single "emails I can't send: fwd" . This piece explores the prosthetic ability to send difficult texts we want to send, but can't due to emotional, personal, or safety reasons. By tapping your phone on the pillow, the user, through NFC technology becomes prompted to "Write a Text you Can't Send" in their phone's text app, and hit send, gratifying the user, but just going to an empty mailbox.

Music Video Accompanying the storyline

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Untitled (2022)

This commission work told the story of the marriage of one couple's east and west cultures throigh dragon and tiger Chinese horoscopes and characters symbolic of prosperity, love, blessings, and family

Vinyl, Recycled Fabrics, Quilted and Appliqué

Final size: 27" x 33"

NFS

Portrait of Us (2022)

To commemorate the opening of the new NCSSM Morganton campus, and to tell the NCSSM story of stem education through bringing diverse young minds to a residential environment, I collected hundreds of pictures of students, alumni, faculty, and staff to feed into an AI algorithm on the Bridges II Supercomputer in Pittsburgh, to learn what the NCSSM community looked like.

This algorithm was then asked to produce new faces that don’t exist. These were then collaged, cut out of local Durham fabrics 🧵 from the Scrap Exchange, quilted using the Durham Road system on a long arm at Cary Quilting Co, and finished with Vinyl overlays and a border!

Portrait of an American (2020)

Just as American society and culture are pieced together from multiple origins into one singular, intricate reality (E Pluribus Unum), this piece visually demonstrates how these origins blend together through specific shapes, colors, and patterns. The intent to disengage from specific identities within the piece is to promote an image of a united identity while also being cognizant of the spectrum of identities that are not necessarily best represented by known stereotypes or imagery. Overall, the non-conventional use of quilted appliqué reveals my visual language communicating the narratives of the multiple races, ethnicities, genders, and religious ideologies—capturing through time the American cultural and social “fabric.”

*** This piece is a National title holder with the Scholastic Arts and Writing Competition and is permanently installed at the NCSSM Department of Humanities in Durham, NC ***

Varsity Jacket (2021)

Built from scratch, this jacket was an exploration in apparel and garment construction. The interior is lined with a hand-quilted material and the exterior is polyester.

Photography/Model Credit: Marcos Aspiazu/Madeline Brown

Crumpled Backpack (2020)

Completed during NCSSM's AR4100 Drawing, this final project was an exercise in hyperrealistic drawing. Working from life, this piece was created on 9"x11" card stock using graphite and charcoal

"We Love You, Mom" (2020)

Using a recording app, the audio of each of my two siblings and I were recorded saying "We Love You Mom". These audio files were then manipulated in the Cricut DesignSpace software to create cut files of each audio file's soundwave. Each DesignSpace file was cut out of different shades of red vinyl on a Cricut, with each color representing one of my siblings or I. The vinyl was then transferred to an old tabletop that had been cut to size, and framed in a custom-made shadowbox.

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