(re)wilding
My newest body of encaustic and textile collages embraces a wilder, more untamed energy. By deconstructing fabric—fraying, pulling, and cutting apart—I allow it to shed its fixed function and become something more vital, raw, and expressive. Wax holds these fragments in tension: preserving looseness while amplifying texture, gesture, and movement.
As one critic described my work, it is “part artifact, part event,” a practice that unravels memory into a limitless present. The cloth holds memory within its folds, shaped by function and social expectation, but in unraveling it creates space for possibility. Each piece is a living surface where destruction and repair, fragility and resilience, coexist.
![Held in the Weave of Sky and Soil, encaustic and fiber, 40 x 40 in. [Sold]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1dd591f6576eb8bfaed749/1756333956744-XHKV076K1VA2T4382OSW/8a_Held+in+the+Weave+of+Sky+and+Soil_cloth%2C+paper%2C+and+encaustic_40x40_2025.jpg)
This new collection can be viewed at Carrie Haddad Gallery.
