I work with cloth that already has a history: thinned by use, stiffened by repair, suffering damage it was never designed to survive. Cloth carries what happens to a body, in ways that resist easy explanation, and that resistance is where my practice begins.

Cloth holds multiple experiences at once - the moment it was made, its age, its failure through wear, whatever attempts at repair came before mine, and the unrecorded labour of care, maintenance, and use that has been largely disregarded. These do not collapse into a single story. The interventions I make do not seek to resolve or fix meaning - they become another layer of evidence, holding the cloth's past and my present together to create future possibility.

My practice is grounded in five decades of embodied textile knowledge. A sense of what the cloth will and won't do arrives almost before touch. Knowing when to act, and when it has already spoken, is felt before it is fully understood. That knowledge is shaped by research into how damage is held across time: materially, physiologically, and culturally.

Material has always been my argument. In a cultural moment that converts damage into content, that accelerates past difficult experience and demands resolution, this practice refuses that demand. The hand is present but not on display. Deliberate restraint resonates as powerfully as what is performed.

My work asks for a specific kind of intimate attention: to encounter rather than decode, to stay with what has been marked, held under pressure, and continues, regardless.