• Designer • Costumer • Creator

As a designer, I seek to express through clothing, the often distorted measure between what is seen and what is felt. In plain, the realization of a personal concept map—every association, memory, and implication of a subject beyond its factual reality or technical use. 

Within this intimate context, a web of new meaning is achieved for seemingly disparate elements. Their contradictive dialogue informs sculptural form, mood, and character development. I construct the landscape of the silhouette via these oppositions and transformative states, in tandem with the female consciousness of my created character. Pairings like “corrosive emergence” evoke both a visual and emotional terrain from which a collection can be realized. Elements of Victorian dress and culture, youthful innocence and transient dream states provide additional ongoing inspiration.

I place careful focus on research as well as intuition and observation to develop specialized patterning and tactile textile treatments evocative of my subject. Usually this process is informed by the study of a new technique, such as basket making, tatting or silk painting, to bring an additional level of interest to the work. Equal emphasis is placed on surface textile design and construction. Likewise, I employ both flat patterning and draping to create form, building additional structure with boning, tulle, or interfacing as appropriate.