Inspired by human structures overgrown with vegetation, these embroideries investigate how the elements and nature inevitably undo human efforts to control our environment. The disparity created by the combination of soft organic threads and hard-edge industrial materials, the deteriorated and distressed nature of the substrates achieved through staining, burning, and unraveling, and recognizable patterns used for building, sewing, and other decorative purposes, embody the cycle of anthropological activity and the process of natural decomposition. The meticulous and steady process of building up layers and textures stitch by stitch and their ongoing growth alludes to the slow but gradual and perpetual decay facilitated by the elements and the wilderness that inevitably contradict human inclinations to want to fix, build and construct

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