Rebuilding
2019
Needle-Felted Wool, Machine Thread
26x26x28 inches

Rebuilding, is another piece in my portfolio that uses the metaphor of skin to represent shedding a past of pain, resentment, and fear. The needle felted figure in this work is once again pure white and plush but is covered in thin snakelike skin made using thread and free-motion stitching. The figure removes her grey, crisp, lace-like skin and is left with an uncontaminated, unblemished soft body, as if she has been scrubbed clean.