These sculptures combine fiber and found textiles: needle-felted wool animates, supports, and undermines antique dresses and undergarments.

The ‘Pelt’ sculptures came about when I first became a parent; the intense and emotional drive to care for, feed, and protect my young felt deeply personal and yet common throughout the animal kingdom. The messy, uncontrollable, and immensely satisfying elements of being a mother brought home to me that for all my education, tool use, and language, I am essentially a mammal. 

One hallmark of being a mammal is possessing hair—something humans routinely try to shape, deny, remove, and contain that persists nonetheless.  In this work I combine found clothing items that carry their own layers of meaning with hair that intrudes on and reshapes them as a reassertion of the closeted mammal inside. 

Selected ‘Pelt’ sculptures can be found for sale in my online sculpture shop.