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The unifying theme that connects throughout my work is intent. My process is multidimensional: Creation, reflection, and activism. Critical of the damage corporate business ambition typically generates, both on the global environment as well as on "our own spirituality," I deconstruct meaning by reusing textile waste. The process and materials used are most often the reason for the works. The materials guide me into what they want to become. My art is minimalist. I use simple shapes and lines and a limited color palette to clearly deliver my ideas. I explore the divide between high end aesthetics and the discarded residue of our overpopulated world. My fashion design background is used to explore a three-dimensional vision, whereas in fashion, a person's shape would inform the fabric's form; now I use textiles to inform shapes. Many of the lines in the structures mimic those of the human body, of sensuality. Through the use of reliefs and sculptures made with the conventional business suit, I give a nod to my admiration of both conceptual art and geometric aesthetics. I consider the suit as the uniform of the business world, turning the wearers into anonymous and homogeneous subjects who, in addition to toxic masculinity, can be indifferent to the environmental and personal damage generated by their excessive business practices. Working with recognizable fragments such as sleeves and deconstructed jackets, the works dissect not only the suit but also its meaning. Assembled with a poetic orderly stacking, the pieces are at the same time symbolic residues and geometric structures. Using the visual homogeneous style of the typical corporate worker, the cuts are re-signified, evidence of the deconstruction of a value system and the configuration of a new identity. Just as Magritte used the bowler hat to represent "everyman" or "any man" a sort of anonymity comes with a man's suit. We separate ourselves from the impact that we are having. The more anonymous we are, the easier it is to not take responsibility for our actions.
 

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