I create embroidered and appliquéd textile portraits that explore the unstable boundary between the human body and the natural world. My figures appear in varying states of exposure: some shielded, others partially damaged, overgrown, or dissolving into their surroundings. In certain works it becomes difficult to distinguish where the body ends and nature begins. I approach nature not as a backdrop, but as an active force that acts upon us. The work resists romantic notions of harmony and instead considers disruption, imbalance, and the slow collapse of the idea that humans stand outside or above the systems that shape them.

Textile functions in my practice as a surrogate skin — a thin, fragile membrane. I subject fabric to processes that mirror bodily exposure: piercing, abrasion, staining, bleaching, cutting, fraying, tearing, and repair. Embroidery becomes wound and scar; thread behaves like growth or rupture. The material is not simply a surface for depiction but a surface that enacts vulnerability. The damage is real. In this way, the textile records the forces that act upon it, carrying meaning beyond the image it presents.

Through portraiture and choice of material, my work fuses together subject and process. The figures are shown in states of negotiation with forces beyond their control, while the fabric itself bears the evidence of that encounter. The portraits are not images of vulnerability, but records of exposure — reminders that the body is neither insulated nor exempt, but continuously shaped by the natural world it attempts to contain.