a gift while you're away: 2016-2019
pearls, panties, pubic hair, nickel
2016
sameness and lacking: 2016-2019
hematite, panties, pubic hair, nickel
2019

bloated overworked untouched: 2016-2019
silver, panties, string, pubic hair, nickel 
2019

what i'm ignoring: 2016-2019
pearls, panties, string, pubic hair, nickel
2018
sameness and lacking: 2016-2019
silver chain, panties, string, pubic hair, nickel
2018     

a moment for us: 2016-2019
silver, cubic zirconia, panties, pubic hair, nickel
2019

STATEMENT


I began Gratitude in 2016, a year marked by frustration and the quiet mourning of a body I no longer recognized as my own. Lingerie, once a second skin, became a collection of artifacts—too tight, too small, too foreign. I stitched these remnants of intimacy into small, wearable brooches, binding their histories with precious stones and metals.

Each brooch is a swollen form, bulbous and tender, its fabric layers stitched together by hands seeking both repair and release. The materials, unruly and persistent, take on lives of their own, becoming peculiar personalities—unique, obsessive, and quietly defiant.

Delicate pieces of pubic hair cling to the brooches, shifting and shedding with each touch, acting as reminders of impermanence. Like a fragile relationship, these pieces demand care, attention, and patience. They resist passivity, asking instead to be nurtured, cherished, and tended to.

They are reminders of finding comfort in discomfort, balance in imperfection. These brooches are my small acts of reconciliation, reminders to make peace with a body that has always been mine, yet never entirely my own.