In my life as a suburban stay-at-home parent, it is exclaimed repeatedly by my peers that they would find the tasks of constructing quilts too difficult or boring to do what I do. But that's actually how I feel about the tasks of huswifery. And, in my life as an artist, I revel in the process: both the fiddly bits that others can imagine and the design decisions that express my vision. My work often incorporates hand-stitching, completed while waiting in school pick-up lines or during gymnastics, because I will not pretend that my identities of housewife and artist can be compartmentalized as separate from one another. This reflects the history of quilting as a pragmatic art: both useful and expressive. The duality feels right to me. I delight in modern commercially printed fabric as my main medium and tend toward themes of resistance.