Braids
Welcome Mat
In January 2025 I began collecting the purple nitrile gloves from the painting and printmaking studios within my school. I was fascinated by a collaboration between the byproducts of art made by people in my community (friends, strangers, teachers) and my hand work. I set out to create a workable material from the sticky mess I had collected, and settled upon cutting and then braiding the gloves with the intention of creating a weaving. Welcome Mat is the result of this first round of experimentation.
In January 2025 I began collecting the purple nitrile gloves from the painting and printmaking studios within my school. I was fascinated by a collaboration between the byproducts of art made by people in my community (friends, strangers, teachers) and my hand work. I set out to create a workable material from the sticky mess I had collected, and settled upon cutting and then braiding the gloves with the intention of creating a weaving. Welcome Mat is the result of this first round of experimentation.
In September 2025 I returned to the studios I first began collecting waste gloves from, and began collecting with more awareness of the project as a time-based exploration. During this same time I began to re-learn fiber arts I worked in as a child, such as knit and crochet. I began to braid lengths of gloves into one continuous string or yarn, again thinking of the product as a material exploration of the combination of my physical labor with that of my community. Untitled (let down your hair) is an installation of this material as a part of a duet exhibition in January-February 2026.