my quilting practice emerged during a profound rupture in my life. for years i balanced a full‑time career in architecture with a traditional painting and multimedia practice, creating in the margins of my days. everything changed when my mother was diagnosed with cancer. i left my job to care for her, spending six months in the intimate rhythms of tending, waiting, and witnessing. after her passing, i inherited her sewing machine and the closets of fabric we had collected and stitched together since my childhood.

grief brought me back to those materials. what began as a way to stay close to my mother’s hands became a new artistic language. sewing offered a structure when the rest of my life felt unmoored; quilting became a way to metabolize loss, to honor her craft, and to continue a lineage of domestic knowledge passed down through generations of women in my family.

my work now grows from this inheritance. i approach quilting as both a material and emotional archive — a place where memory, labor, and care accumulate in layers. each piece is built through slow, repetitive gestures: cutting, mending, hand‑stitching. these actions echo the quiet, often invisible work that shaped my upbringing and sustained my family. they allow me to transform domestic labor into authorship, resilience, and storytelling.

in this practice, I am not only making quilts; i am extending a conversation with my mother, honoring the strong women who came before me, and reimagining the domestic as a site of creativity and meaning. my quilts hold the traces of that lineage — the grief, the tenderness, the resourcefulness — and invite viewers into the intimate spaces where memory is made and remade.

i create quilt based textile art that explores memory, domestic space, and the often‑invisible labor of women. by working with repurposed fabrics i explore how materials can carry the imprint of personal histories. by introducing found imagery i can tell a layered story that stitches together everyday materials into intimate narratives that honor the quiet strength of generations of women, and by doing this i hope to transform the everyday into art.

rooted in the domestic practices passed down through my mother and grandmother, i want my work to reflect an immigrant family’s resourcefulness, mending, saving, and reusing cloth as both necessity and tradition. i am drawn to the emotional and material histories embedded in textiles: the softness of worn fabric, the scent of a childhood linen closet, and the traces of unpaid labor that linger in household materials.

through hand‑sewing, mending, and repetitive gestures, i try to reclaim domestic work as a site of creativity, resilience, and authorship. the layering of fabric into quilts function as an act of remembrance and resistance, insisting that these personal and generational histories matter. by blurring the boundaries between craft, memory, and art, i hope to elevate the domestic into something quietly powerful and deeply meaningful and to bring it lovingly full circle into the present.