As the grandchild of a quiltmaker, and the great-grandchild of a weaver, I have known cloth as a keeper of history as well as an agent of remedy. Guiding a material process of reformation, I seek to locate the origin of wounds by untangling inherited shame.

Like the wound, the dye is unerasable—yet it is salvageable. Through an ongoing ritual of staining, I conjure imagery with the cloth to reclaim and reintegrate the fragments of shame that stain the queer experience. Each mark is a remembrance, the painting a reclamation. Queer apparitions wander landscapes of the in-between, emerging from and sinking into tender atmospheres of desolation. On the loom, their fragments become re-embodied by the construction of cloth. Within the ongoing rhythm of assembling, disassembling, and reassembling, portals are opened to where boundaries once marked separation, making contact with the apparitions and leading them back into place, in to light.