My artistic practice examines textiles as sites of encoded knowledge, objects that carry narrative, protection, and memory across generations. Like oral traditions, textiles transmit social and historical information through repetition, gesture, and material inheritance, often moving along matrilineal lines. The act of making functions as both language and lineage: a means of preservation, resistance, and survival.

Historically dismissed as functional or decorative, domestic textiles have long operated as alternative archives, spaces where women embedded knowledge when other forms of speech or record were unavailable. Central to my work is an engagement with apotropaic symbols encoded within these objects: repeated forms and gestures that function as ritual protection marks. These talismanic demands—do not touch me; protect my home; do not let my family starve—assert agency within the confines of everyday life, operating at thresholds between vulnerability and safety, presence and absence.

I work with textiles as physical carriers of cultural memory. Cloth absorbs time through touch, labor, and proximity to the body, while remaining portable across borders. For diasporic and displaced communities, textiles often become among the few enduring links to ancestral places. Through encoded systems, rupture, and repair, I explore fiber's capacity to both hold and fracture history, using textile structures to reveal what has been obscured rather than to offer comfort or concealment.