My artwork is a combination of the immediate and the ancient. By using post-modern materials, I reinterpret the traditions of weaving and basketry. The materials are cast off, surplus, or waste: copper wire from the recycle yard; audio cassette tapes that even the thrift store wanted to throw away; yarns and materials of unknown purpose that were donated to the fiber arts program at my university. The materials couldn’t have existed physically or conceptually until the modern age. They are the by products of industrialization; as are the concepts of disposability, one-time-use, and waste.
