My artistic practice is rooted in my years as a domestic worker, where I developed an intimate understanding of home as both sanctuary and site of power. Cleaning and caring for the homes of others revealed the quiet complexities of domestic life—its rituals, expectations, histories, and invisible labor. These experiences continue to shape my work, which explores the intersections of care, gender, labor, and the spaces we inhabit.

This body of work began with embroidering vulvas into the centers of traditional Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs, symbols historically associated with protection, prosperity, and the home. By reimagining these familiar forms, I transform them into acts of resistance and remembrance, honoring women's resilience while confronting the ongoing struggle for bodily autonomy. As reproductive rights become increasingly uncertain, these works ask what it means to seek protection in a world where our bodies and our futures feel increasingly vulnerable.

Suspended in darkness, each embroidered form exists in a state of becoming—unmoored, fragile, and uncertain of the direction it will grow. They reflect a collective moment of instability while refusing despair. Instead, they hold space for possibility: that vulnerability can become strength, that care can become resistance, and that even in periods of profound uncertainty, we continue to imagine and create more just futures.

By combining traditional craft with contemporary feminist inquiry, my work reclaims domestic imagery as a site of agency, transformation, and hope. Through embroidery, textiles, and symbols historically associated with women's work, I seek to honor those whose labor has so often gone unseen while envisioning a future shaped by autonomy, resilience, and collective care.