One, 2017, cashmere scraps, thread and dry cleaner bags, 7 x 11 x 6½ inches

Two, 2017, cashmere scraps, thread and stuffing, 7 x 18 x 9 inches

Three, 2017, cashmere scraps, thread and stuffing, 9 x 16 x 14 inches

Four, 2017, cashmere scraps, thread and stuffing, 8½ x 17 x 6 inches

Installation view with Marina Caliari at Free Oakland UP, Oakland, CA. photo: Jocelyn Meggait

Visual Representation of a Josef Albers’ Quote on the Color Red, 2014, 50 found sweaters, chair, 51 x 36 x 18 inches  SCRAP, Reclaimed: Elevating the Art of Reuse, 2016, SF Arts Education Project Gallery at the Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA

 

To understand is to stand under, which is to look up to which is a good way to understand. ~Corita Kent, 2016, jeans, 5 x 5½ x 5½ feet Meaning in Unmaking MFA Exhibition, 2016, Fine Arts Gallery at SF State, San Francisco, CA

Further Together, 2015, 34 denim jeans, a gi pant, straps and hardware, 17 x 10 x 1 feet, The Annual Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition 2015, SOMArts Cultural Center

Indecipherable, 2015, stream of consciousness writing, found sweater and thread, 27 x 36 x 4 inches

Hypnopompic Artifact, 2014, Thomas the Train Engine bed sheet, 11 x 11 x 5 inches

You are Supported More Than You Know, 2019, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

Kintsugi Healing Cracked Spaces, 2017, PhotoCentral Gallery, Hayward, CA. photo: Geir Jordahl

The knitted strips no longer make this Thomas the Train Engine bedsheet recognizable. Instead, the resulting fuzzy image is reminiscent of a hypnopompic state upon waking, where one is confused and doesn’t know the time of day or the place where one is located.