Unlikely Hunter ,
explores a real and imagined life in the Gulf South. Subject matters of addiction, family, and hunting are approached with a youthful neutrality that evolves into a fantastical narrative. The artist creates new worlds that recontextualize personal histories and the places she grew up in. By using a mix of found objects contrasted with the artist’s embroidered and hand quilted textiles, each object and depicted place invites the viewer to contemplate the relationship between our memories and realities. Works emerge from a place of innocent curiosity akin to rummaging through a barn as a child. Darker themes become haunting fragments, turned on their heads into something entirely new. The meticulous use of hand-quilting inherited from her mother and grandmother and a photorealistic embroidery method all become trophies of ‘the hunt’ The hunt being that for objects and places that we wish to memorialize.
