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Various weavings using discarded materials that carry traces of labor and personal memories, such as family T-shirts, natural-dyed yarn, pallets from Princeton, and bricks from St. Louis and Home Depot.

Materials include discarded clothes, family T-shirts, recycled yarn, and unraveled sweaters; bricks scavenged from St. Louis; and wires found in an abandoned boat

Construction pallet. Discarded clothes, family T-shirts, natural dyed and handspun yarn, unraveled sweaters. Bricks scavenged from St. Louis and Home Depot, wires

Woodblock prints on washi paper. Printed with bodily pressure

Woodblock prints on washi paper. Printed with bodily pressure

Woodblock print on washi paper

White T-Shirt material, canvas patches, sand, dirt, beanbag filling, stains.

Sackbodies: Canvas drop cloth filled with collected sawdust. Aluminum wire. Mouths: Mokuhanga prints of rusting pipes on washi paper

Canvas drop cloth filled with collected sawdust. Aluminum wire

Canvas drop cloth filled with collected sawdust. Aluminum wire

Princeton bricks. Home Depot bricks. Handmade, then hand spun kozo/ washi paper string. Chewed gum. Plaster cast

Friend's sweater (unraveled), photography development frames, letterforms from postcards between strangers