What I love about art is its ability to make things we take for granted beautiful. Like most still-life practices, my art is about romanticizing the everyday, additionally, it is a quiet resistance of concept, craft, material, and time. It is a juxtaposition of worn materials and detailed imagery. It is beauty in stillness. Hand embroidery takes hours of stitching. It is in this process of layering thread that I create work that in many ways replicates painting. However, I use a craft that is historically 'decorative’ and passed down from woman to woman. My goal is to draw people closer, for them to see the array of colors, and think, 'Wow, that's just denim and cotton thread.'