Inspired by the Frida Kahlo quote, “I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim”. The motifs are meant to express a sense of paralysis in substance abuse. Completed 2020
Knitted over 4 months while watching campaign coverage and then was given personally to Bernie Sanders. Completed in March 2020.
The on-going, and seemingly never ending, battle over women’s reproductive rights inspired this sweater. Traditional fair isle knitting techniques were used to show simplistic and easily recognizable modern symbols such as coat hangers and female anatomy. Completed 2019.
The town of Paradise, California was destroyed by a fire in the summer of 2018. Trying to use the medium of knitting as way of recording history, the artist took traditional fair isle techniques and traditional pastoral motifs, and juxtaposed them with the harsh reality of the world around us. Completed in 2019.
The “Unnecessary Sweater” was the beginning of the “Depressing Sweaters” series. The artist designed and knitted the piece using traditional fair isle techniques. The simple motifs aim to show a world underwater due to climate change. Completed in 2018.
