ABOUT: In my work, I take images of metamorphosis and binary-blurring in nature from Irish folktales and reassemble and queer them into new and absurd relationships with their own internal logic. Creatures and forms of flesh, fur, fungus, flower and feather mingle and merge and begin to exhibit peculiar actions, establish unusual habits and develop some symbiotic relationships. I do this through ink drawings, tufted works and intricate textile collages. I became interested in these mediums because of their history with collaborative story-telling and their connotations to gender and queerness. My work is guided by the concept of queer ecology, which asks us to abandon ideas of human exceptionalism and anthropomorphism and instead asks us to see humans as part of a complex and interwoven system, whose patterns and processes are different from our own. My work is influenced by grotesque realism, the use of exaggerated, physical, and bodily imagery to lower all that is spiritual and abstract to the material level, celebrating renewal and unity. My work offer an invitation to imagine new ways of interacting with and existing within the larger matrix of nature and the earth