"Hawks or Trains" takes its title from an arbitrary alternate classification. While visiting Sin for the duration of June 2025, you are invited to take a letterpress-printed survey, circle whether you are a hawk or a train, write or draw anything that comes up for you while answering this question, and deposit your finished survey into a hanging box. This collective performance is an act of parody toward systems of categorization that act as tools of oppression.*
The works in this exhibition are primarily embroideries on fabric and on handmade paper, but I might describe them as moments of potential energy before a poem is written. Writing poetry often demands vulnerability and a surrender to language that cannot easily or accurately represent experience. Abstraction, tactile materials, and multi-process making are a refuge from legibility. While I am honored to offer myself to you in my words, I am not infinitely visible.
Titles and further explanations can be found on this webpage. Artworks can be purchased via this link, or in-person if you see me at the reception.
*Consider a category that a powerful system has forced upon you. It's Pride Month; don't think too hard.
Tangled Bodies of Water
embroidery and cyanotype on cotton fabric
2024
9in x 8.5in
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Collect Seeding Branches in Sleep Space
embroidery on handmade rag paper
2025
6in x 4in
I woke from a dream that I was an unfamiliar body in a city I have never visited. I was bending down to gather branches with seed pods.
Half Weave for a Building Drawing
embroidery on handmade rag paper
2025
4in x 6in
For weeks after I returned, I could not sleep. I would take out my notebook and draw buildings I saw during my travels. I drew them until I was drawing just displaced shapes.
Weaving Practice on the Reclaimed Beach
embroidery on handmade tea paper
2025
6in x 4in
These "tea paper" sheets are made from used tea leaves that I have processed through beating.Â
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Woven Plant Planets
embroidery on handmade rag paper with hydrangea petals
2025
4in x 6in​​​​​​​
Woven Sun Border Corner Ornament
embroidery on handmade rag paper
2025
6in x 4in
Ever since I learned how to write metered poetry (c. 2016), I've been drawing decorations around my poems. Sometimes I draw the ornamentation before I have written any words.
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Rewritten Love Note no.1
embroidery on handmade rag paper with hydrangea petals
2025
4in x 6in
This embroidery features the nonsense font I developed in 2024 and used for the interactive artwork "tell me a secret."
Rewritten Love Note no.2
embroidery on handmade rag paper with hydrangea petals
2025
4in x 6in
This embroidery features the nonsense font I developed in 2024 and used for the interactive artwork "tell me a secret."
Tea Sand Fissure
embroidery on handmade tea paper
2025
6in x 4in
These "tea paper" sheets are made from used tea leaves that I have processed through beating.Â
Survey Question 1: "are you a hawk or a train?"
letterpress on handmade rag paper with hydrangea petals
2025
4in x 6in
Have you been forced to chose a place in an arbitrary binary categorization that oppresses those who do not neatly fit into a category?
Survey Question 1c: "I am an earthly deity and my name is too short:"
letterpress and embroidery on handmade rag paper
2025
4in x 6in
The wording in the first part of this section comes from a translation of the Kojiki, where characters often meet strangers on their journeys who introduce themselves with the following: "I am an earthly deity and my name is _____." Gods in these stories often have long names. While I was reading them, I scrawled these words into my journal.
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Survey Question 2: "mouth new names."
letterpress on handmade rag paper
2025
4in x 6in
Rename yourself. I dare you.
assorted commodities (Hawks or Trains series)
handknit wool
2025
1.5in x 1.5in each
The 31 knit balls in this installation are part of an ongoing performance of labor in which I knit hundreds of knit balls during leisure hours. I have knit these on buses, in lectures, during card games, and at plays. More information on this performance can be found on this page.
This exhibition is up for the entire month of June at 1413 Westminster St. Providence, RI.
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