Through an ecofeminist lens, my work investigates economies of attention, labor, and play. I integrate traditionally feminized textile processes with other media, including video, performance, and sculpture. I simultaneously work on multiple long-term projects, each gleaned from different human-animal contexts. Currently, I’m focused on projects involving sheep and crows. Through direct or mediated collaboration, I work with animals and biomaterials (such as wool and mugwort), while also engaging friends, family, strangers, or hired participants from Craigslist. I produce many of my projects in cities where animals exist at the periphery of human attention, even though they are the majority population. My sculpture, performances, and video installations are often staged outdoors, where they create ecosystems of playful exchange between humans, animals, and their shared landscape. Many of my sculptures interweave video with synthetic and natural materials, shepherding the viewer into a tactile and conceptual encounter. Challenging our anthropocentric biases, I invite in new frameworks for the urgent interspecies work of caring for the environment.
