Cultivating Doilies is a look at an idealized space where the origination of the domestic doily takes place. Behaviors of clustering and growth from the natural world have been adapted by the domestic textile, and in this space they have been allowed to remain unrefined. Allowed to grow untamed, we see what the doily’s full potential could be.

My work allows the organic qualities of the natural world to live in harmony with the domestic culture of home. Simultaneously addressing our relationship with textiles in our domestic space and organic processes, my work is a place for their coexistence.

As domestic textiles and natural elements coexist they begin to become one another. The organic change that has taken place comes to define the volume and shape of the domestic element. Growing and changing into multi-functioning, ambiguous forms the textile elements take on organic shapes and qualities.

The interaction of the organic and domestic within my work asserts their separation of it in the world. My work runs in accordance with nature rather than against it. The viewer is challenged to contemplate their relationship with domestic culture and the natural world and how those two realms interact.