“Historically, women and animals have been bound together through metaphor in ways that flatten both. My work examines the animalization of women and the humanization of animals as shaped through patriarchal metaphor. My body of work moves through the space between human and animal, where neither is asked to transform in order to belong. Both bodies remain intact and distinct, yet entangled and held in close proximity without hierarchy or resolution. Fragments of the body function within their natural structures, becoming sites where the animal can rest, be carried, or remain partially concealed. Each section of the body offers its own conditions, including curvature, flushness, pressure, and vulnerability, allowing the animal to exist within without alteration. Surfaces shift between softness and resistance, with lace embedded into the surface, suggesting something integrated but not essential to the body, like a second skin or a lingering trace. It moves between protective and restrictive, or a sense of soft decay, without settling into one reading. These material shifts blur boundaries between interior and exterior, suggesting something held within, remembered, or slowly emerging over time. ”