My work as an interdisciplinary artist has led me into realms of religion, health care, and socially-engaged practices. I create ceremonial textiles, explore ritual performance, construct installations, and involve individuals and groups in interactive projects that rely on a collective engagement in the creation of form. Core content that drives my process includes the primacy of language and text, cross-cultural phenomenologies of loss, the construction of memory, and the nature of transformation.

My performances and installations over the past five years have been realized as collaborative memorials to create space for human mourning in the wake of monumental loss. These have included 'Abject/Object' (Mobius commission 2006), situated contextually in the War in Iraq, and 'Shrinekeepers: An Intermedia Performance' (Boston Cyberarts Festival 2007), a tribute to victims of youth violence in Boston area neighborhoods. 'Yarns for Haiti', 'Vessel for Haiti', and 'Vessel for Haiti II' are recent interactive performances in response to the catastrophic earthquake in January 2010. 'Vessel for Haiti III' is a site-responsive performance aboard the lightship "Frying Pan," docked in NYC's Hudson River (March 2011). The Vessel for Haiti series is an ongoing reflection about loss and resiliency, and a call to action.

Since 2001 I have been an artist-in-residence with Congregation Eitz Chayim (Cambridge, MA) where I’ve had opportunities to create new work in the context of religious tradition and community engagement. The invitation to fabricate a new Torah mantle for this congregation was my first opportunity to create a ritual object with a distinctive and singular function to point beyond itself, signaling the central importance of the text it both conceals and reveals - and in so doing, implicating the human body in its mediation. A parallel undertaking inspired in this early fabrication period emerged from my interest in the hidden space between the mantle and the parchment of the scroll. From September 2009 to September 2010, I led the congregation in 'Spin and Weave a Jewish Yarn', a project involving the material transformation of family narratives that were woven into an 8-foot-long Torah wrapper to securely bind the scroll. The Torah mantle itself was completed in October 2011 and presented to the congregation on Simchat Torah.

Taking what I’ve learned of the paper spinning process inaugurated with 'Spin and Weave a Jewish Yarn', I am currently collaborating with Cheyenne McCarter, LICSW, to co-lead 'Spin a Yarn, Weave a Life' with a small group of Cambridge, MA elders living in subsidized housing. This textual fiber history will preserve and transform their life stories into woven fabric and is being funded by the Cambridge Arts Council.