New Works in Progress… Inheritance in Pieces
Through this process (and this current art making cycle), I’m building a surreal family lineage, one that may or may not exist filled with all of my lines of women rooting for me to create freely, to make art on my own terms rather than by expectation.
Tactile Nitty Gritty of this current art making cycle: “I start by building surreal imagery in Photoshop layer upon layer treating it like a digital collage. I collect and save fragments of faces, colors, and textures, much like I once did flipping through old magazines. The scenes often begin in an empty field before I bring in the figures that draw me in most. Once the composition feels complete, I print the image onto fabric, choosing textures that complement the story.
From there, I embroider details; threads tracing abstract shapes like auroras around the figures, little knots marking ancestral connections. This tactile process is meditative. It restores the human touch I crave after hours in Photoshop and really bridges the digital and handmade making the piece finally feel finished.”
Inheritance in Pieces
Inheritance in Pieces speaks to how personal and ancestral legacies are often passed down fragments—memories, heirlooms, emotions, and untold stories that arrive incomplete.
This series overall explores the act of reconstructing those pieces through art: stitching together real and imagined histories, symbolic objects, and aesthetic rituals to form a visual lineage.
It reclaims femininity and generational wisdom as powerful forms of inheritance; especially for women whose stories have often been silenced or overlooked.
The work embraces both the beauty and complexity of what we carry, and asks what it means to inherit not just things, but emotion, intuition, and creative freedom.
Current Themes in Progress
This ongoing body of work explores layered expressions of feminine strength, memory, and family history. Ornate jackets embellished with floral embroidery and tassels serve as a kind of modern armor—boldly feminine and unapologetically decorative. These garments challenge the cultural conditioning that devalues what is considered “girlie,” while elevating masculinity as the norm. Here, hyper-femininity becomes a symbol of agency a deliberate act of pride, power, and resistance.
The color pink, so often dismissed as superficial or childish, is reimagined as a visual thread connecting generations of women. It becomes a bridge—linking the quiet resilience of the past with the expressive defiance of the present, telling stories of survival, softness, sacrifice, and strength.
Animals appear throughout the series as surreal guardians of this imagined ancestral line. They protect and guide blending maternal presence with mythic energy becoming symbols of lineage and intuition.
I’m continuing to explore how this series takes shape in different formats—visit Inheritance in Pieces to see other expressions of these themes.