Aluminum Drawings, 2025
24 x 26 inches
Aluminum sheet, plexiglass sheet, hand dyed textile, thread.
My multidisciplinary work Lilit the Empathic Demon has since 2020 explored the insidious side of empathy, empathy fatigue, trauma-healing modalities, and astrology as storytelling through text messages to a growing community of people. This body of work centers on Lilit, an aerial spirit demon with origins in Sumerian, Akkadian, and Judaic mythology. In the 2nd-7th centuries, artist-healers created spells, drawings, and talismanic objects to trap demons who were often named Lilit.
This new series features aluminum-carved drawings. The metal serves as the primary layer of a multi-dimensional assemblage, trapping hand-dyed and collaged textiles beneath its surface. These fabrics—stitched using techniques traditionally dismissed as "women’s work"—are visibly compressed between the rigid aluminum and plexiglass backing. By translating these "demons" into metal, I emphasize the visceral tension between the softness of the fiber and the cold permanence of the industrial aluminum.
Created at the Cornell University shops while I was the Teiger Mentor for the MFA students in spring 2025.
