This work is focused on my feminine identity, the gendered-female body, and who I am as a woman in society today. I use myself as the subject making it personal but also empowering and embracing me as a woman. My themes play with the tension of softness in textiles and fibers, reclaiming it in a way, then pairing it with an abrasive or scandalous design. This contrast creates a beautiful mix of ‘comfortable and confrontational’, a phrase I’ve started to label my art as. Recently I picked up tufting and I feel its elevated my work to another level within that comfortable and confrontational spectrum. With my work I want to encourage the conversations about what being a woman is and embracing your body and your womanhood, hopefully inspiring others on my way to reclaim my femininity.