Clearline Magazine 006

Mixed media piece, Sandalwood and Lace, was selected for the back cover and a two-page spread in Clearline Magazine Issue 006 which is a profound milestone. Clearline is a Detroit-based, submission-driven sustainable fashion and textile publication that acts as a vital microphone for artists responding to our ongoing climate emergency. For this edition, contributors were asked to pull on the sustainable threads connecting our material past, present, and future, interrogating whether the leftovers of our daily consumption are destined for a landfill or somewhere more hopeful.

Sandalwood and Lace, a key work in my Waste to Wonder series, serves as my direct answer to that prompt. It stands as a testament to my ongoing studio partnership with Ecosphere Organics, who provides me with farm-to-table clean food scraps to use as innovative, ecological mediums. By intentionally fusing processed chicken bone, coir fiber, and charcoal with transient industrial waste like packing peanuts, mineral paint, and re-pigmented paint, the work mirrors the exact questions Clearline poses. It takes landfill-bound elements and stitches them into a permanent, tactile dialogue about technological innovation, ancestral history, and the beautiful unknown of raw craftsmanship.