2007-09
Representations of Architeuthis dux/ giant squid/ kraken from historical and contemporary, and both fantastical and actual source material, form the basis of the quilt objects.
These unknowable bodies, from an environment beyond our access, are represented as both monstrous and beautiful. These manifestations are a history of attempting to
perceive a thing beyond standardized human conceptions of the animal body. Quilts are intrinsically tied to the frailties of the body as objects constructed to protect the sleeping body.
They are also the material remainders of female community and family histories. Using silk trapunto quilting as a method of drawing Animal Other bodies, they become intermediaries
and metaphors for the anxiety of uncomfortable/ uncommon forms of bodies/ beauty, and our own place of comfort and safety.

The Darkling Sea performs an overlaying of representations: the wrinkle of flesh, the sheen of water, and sag of bodies over structures of knowledge and back-grounded by the persistent presence
of idealized or mythologized nature made domestic through appearance on wallpaper and quilt objects. It is through installation that these multiple perspectives of the body conflate to
question the methodology of ordering from within.