I still dream about my old house
2023 - 2025, including senior thesis
When I dream about my old house, I am usually aware of the fact that it is no longer my house, and I am either visiting or moving back in. The entire concept behind this work is nostalgia for the comforts and joys of childhood mixed with the bittersweetness, abstractness, and constantly changing nature of memory. I am a bit obsessed with the idea of translating something I see in my brain outwards into a physical form, so that other people could somehow understand it and experience it the way I did. I don’t think I am looking back in sadness all of the time, but rather I am assessing how things change and the feeling associated with those changes. It’s reconciling with the fact that something you loved can never be experienced again in exactly the same way. I love things so strongly that I will end up missing them eventually, and in this work I am trying to find a way to move backwards.
Videos
“the suburbs” - 2025
“To my dolls, I miss you” - 2024
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Wall carousel
oil on unstretched canvas, acrylic paint/medium, cards, fabric, embellishments, objects; ~ 4×5’
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Maddie's duet
oil on fabric with fabric background, embellishments; 16×20” & 16×40”
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6th birthday dress
(closeup)
fabric, sublimation printed images, embellishments
Senior studio, Winter 2025
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6th birthday dress
fabric, sublimation printed images, embellishments
Senior studio, Winter 2025
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Carousel horse dress
upcycled slip dress, fabric, acrylic paint, embellishments
Senior studio, Fall 2024
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Dreams of ballet
fabric, childhood & found objects, embellishments; ~3×4.5’
Senior studio, Fall 2024
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Card tapestry/Memories put on stage
fabric, playing cards, found objects, embellishments; ~4×7’
Senior studio, Fall 2024
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I still dream about my old house
oil on unstretched canvas, fabric, sublimation printed objects, embellishments; ~4.5×4’
Senior studio, Fall 2024
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Soft sculpture carousel horse
fabric, embellishments; ~35×37”
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Canopy
fabric, sublimation printed images
Junior studio, Winter 2024
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Childhood bedroom replica
cardboard, paint, fabric, embellishments, childhood & found objects
Junior studio, Winter 2024
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Childhood bedroom replica
cardboard, paint, fabric, embellishments, childhood & found objects
Junior studio, Winter 2024
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To my dolls, I'm sorry
doll, fabric, paint, embellishments
Junior studio, Fall 2023
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To my dolls, I'm sorry
(back)
doll, fabric, paint, embellishments
Junior studio, Fall 2023
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Carousel dress
upcycled dress, oil on canvas paper, fabric, embellishments
Junior studio, Fall 2023
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Carousel
air dry clay, paint, playing cards, embellishments
Junior studio, Fall 2023