Love Me Boots

A collection of wearable sculptures created from hand-painted silk, developed through the artist’s ongoing investigation of the body, pregnancy, vulnerability, motherhood, identity, desire, and transformation.

The work begins with silk painted by hand over years: a slow accumulation of gesture, color, thought, and time. The paintings hold an ongoing process of self-reflection and the experience of inhabiting a body as it changes. Rather than remaining flat, the silk is cut apart and rebuilt into boots: sculptures that can be worn, that carry weight, move through space, and touch the skin.

Painting, textile, sculpture, performance, and the body converge in a single work. Wearing the boots allows these private reflections to enter the world and become part of an encounter. A stranger sees them, asks about them, responds to them: “Wow, I love your boots.” That simple exchange can become an opening for conversation, recognition, and connection.

Love Me Boots transforms years of painted silk and intimate reflection into objects that carry private experience outward, making the body a site not only of transformation, but of connection.