My work uses my body and personal narrative to investigate ideas of loss, death, and separation. I am influenced by costume history, traditional Catholic rituals, Victorian literature, and the history of early photography. In my work, I often choose feminine objects and materials such as lace, veils, undergarments, and hair, as symbols that speak to my experience as both a woman and a mother. My latest work uses materials that mark the passage of time - veiling, corsage pins, historical garments, and family heirlooms - they are the remains of our corporeal existence - prompts to memory, nostalgia, and melancholy. Here, bodies come into direct contact, and in symbolic conversation, with familial objects that function as relics - covering, wrapping, shrouding a faceless form. It becomes an idealized ritual, enacted in anticipation of one’s own death, and one last interaction of the living with the deceased.