Live Wire: Exhibition Guide

My hand-woven alpaca tapestries depict emergency instruction scenarios from first aid manuals, airline safety cards, and bathroom signs. I weave these symbols to question perceptions about physical interaction, danger, and control. They address the vulnerability and self-preservation negotiated during human interaction.

Hands are one of the most recognizable and expressive parts of the body. The image of the hand has been used throughout history as a symbol of power, community, and protest. Yet when taken out of context, multiplied, and layered, the forms become abstract and begin to evoke a sense of restlessness and disquiet. 

This is a hand-stitched needlework tapestry depicting Palestine and its colonization, and is partially stitched in what I call my 'mosaic style'. The right side of the piece shows Palestine filled with representative cultural images, while the map on the left side is not a real place but represents an ideology that is based on supremacism and separation, enforced by the machines of war that maintain Apartheid and ethnic cleansing.