Work
Greek flags
Beach Badges
City Looks Pretty / Out of The City and Down to The Seaside
Crazy from The Heat (undergraduate thesis)
Current jewelry
Making kin
Once Upon an Island
Shelleducation
The Things We Carry
Untitled (art objects)
Untitled (collages)
Greek Flags
March 2025-ongoing
When my yiayia Niki immigrated to the US, she found work as a seamstress, retiring in 2011 from her last role in an American flagmaking factory. Since then, I have inherited her industrial sewing machine and sewing notions. Below are experiments from an ongoing series exploring non-traditional and traditional methods of flagmaking. I am working with Greek flags and her tools as a way to pay homage to our country and her brilliant tenure as a craftswoman.
Photographed between New Jersey and Kalamata, Greece
Materials: antique handwoven linens, second-hand Quiksilver shorts, buoy rope, recycled canvas, rashguard scrap, glass beads, recycled plastic sequins, surf magazine cuttings, sand bag scrap, thread, deadstock 1970s French Air Force parachute nylon