My work primarily focuses on indigenous joy & resiliency of our ever evolving contemporary native culture. The foundational materials of my work derive from the materials we use in ceremonies and social gatherings. Materials such as seed beads and fabric applique. However depending on the work I’m making the materials I use vary, weather I use paint, dirt, beads, crystals or fabric,  I choose to use these particular materials because of my own history and connection to indigenous culture I want to express abstraction, personal narrative and history with materials I connect with. My work explores generational knowledge,  how contemporary & traditional material are used to signify contemporary indigenous identity. 

    These materials, such as seeds beads, fabric appliqué  which exist for cultural adornment, are used as a carrier for sharing my own personal experiences of movement through micro climates and regions of our country. I also use these materials to explore native views of connection to land. I use traditional materials in exploration of native women's empowerment. Native futurism, contemporary Indigenous identity. All of these themes are primary throughout my most recent work. 

       To me the materials such as seed beads represent resiliency, because seed beads were used in trade during colonial conquest. I am fascinated with how our native communities utilize seed beads in our personal expression of our specific tribal visual language. Seed bead usage has evolved with our own cultural evolution. 

I have created my own unique techniques related to the beaded works in make, the process is multi-leveled with many steps of preparation to come to the final work. I've researched many other cultures' uses of seed beads, because seed beads indicate when colonialism came into contact with a civilization and traded. With my research I had settled on a method of application that aligns with my spiritual practices and visual language of self expression