This
May Be
Uncomfortable
This series examines the experience of infertility through repeated, small-scale works that draw from clinical materials, routines, and moments of waiting. Each piece isolates a fragment of the process, whether physical, emotional, or procedural, and together they accumulate into a broader record of endurance. The work focuses on how treatment is experienced between appointments, where decisions, postponements, financial pressures, and social expectations continue to shape daily life.
A Selection from the Series
This is an ongoing series, currently consisting of ten works with additional pieces in development.
The quilts shown below represent a selection from the series.
Due
20 × 20 in. | 2026
Raw-edge appliqué, foundation paper piecing, and machine quilting
This piece centers on the financial burden of treatment and the ways it accumulates alongside the clinical process. The bill represented here reflects one actual charge of $13,987 within a broader sequence of expenses, incurred despite insurance coverage. Cost becomes another byproduct to manage in order to proceed through uncertainty. Financial vulnerability becomes layered onto medical vulnerability, carried alongside clinical risk.
Inventory
20 × 20 in. | 2026
Raw-edge appliqué, hand embroidery, and machine quilting
This piece organizes the tools of fertility treatment into a structured, repeating composition that reflects cycles of care and the expectation of order within an uncertain process. By presenting these objects without visible bodies, the work shifts attention to the ongoing labor required beyond appointments, where management, timing, and coordination become part of daily life.
Next Month
20 × 20 in. | 2026
Raw-edge appliqué, hand embroidery, and machine quilting
This piece is built around a single repeated phrase commonly offered as reassurance during treatment. “Next month” accumulates across the surface and descends from light into near-black, suggesting not resolution but increasing uncertainty. As the phrase repeats, delay becomes structural rather than incidental, and what begins as a brief postponement carries the weight of extended time.
Someday’s Sun
20 × 20 in. | 2026
Raw-edge appliqué, hand embroidery, and machine quilting
Cherrywood Challenge 2026 Entry
This piece depicts two figures standing together on a shared path, facing a future that remains imagined rather than reached. Drawing on the visual language of story and illustration, the work situates the viewer within an ongoing journey as the landscape shifts from familiarity into increasing uncertainty. The composition centers partnership, holding hope and grief side by side as both are carried forward together.
Good News Everywhere
20 × 20 in. | 2026
Raw-edge appliqué and machine quilting
This piece reflects the experience of moving through spaces saturated with pregnancy announcements while continuing treatment. Public celebration accumulates without pause. Repetition across environments transforms individual moments into continuous exposure, where endurance develops alongside the ongoing work of holding joy for others.
Here, You Can See the Marks
20 × 20 in. | 2026
Raw-edge appliqué, hand embroidery, and machine quilting
This piece reconstructs the abdomen at scale and marks it with bruising and injection sites drawn from a single treatment cycle. By isolating and repeating these traces, the work makes visible the cumulative physical impact of procedures that are often framed as routine and expected to fade. The composition centers what is typically unrecorded, bringing attention to the visible and lasting effects of care.Additional works in this series are ongoing.