Daughter was the recipient of the 2026 UNM Excellence in Undergraduate Arts Research Award.

Daughter is a child-sized sewing machine mechanized and programmed to try to sew on its own. Utilizing a combination of custom digitally fabricated mechanisms and housing, arduino controlled motor circuits, and found material, this project poses questions about the purpose of people, tools, systems and legacy by creating a strained manufacturing process that outputs a flawed but emotionally evocative mimicry of its creator’s artisanship.

In my work I am interested in exploring how structures of abuse and artisan skills are passed down through generations in parallel, and how contemporary interventions can untangle those inheritances. Taking on the domestic role of a child, Daughter serves as both a vessel into which familial artisan legacy, abuse and gender roles can be passed down, and an entity struggling to assert its own autonomy.

Daughter was exhibited in the 2025 group show Polarity at UNM’s Johns Sommers Gallery.