Spin Cycle

Spin Cycle is a series of graphite drawings that explore the mysterious life of fabric, drapery, and clothing in the absence of people. Sometimes the fabric is draped across clouds, laid out suggestively, or quietly distorted. I render the fabric with dimensionality in a flat space.

The series began when I visited my mom and found an outfit laid out on her bed — clothes that weren’t hers. That’s how I discovered her secret boyfriend. The image felt like strange foreshadowing, and it stuck with me. I think of each drawing as unfolding with dream logic — fabric and drapery as stand-ins for emotion, transformation, or desire.

In making this work, I realized fabric can take on a life of its own. There’s a kind of interiority there — something quietly alive — that becomes provocative in unfamiliar contexts because of its assumed intimacy and domesticity. Spin Cycle is about listening to the murmurs: the vast possibilities told by socks and shirts.

Graphite and charcoal on paper, 11" × 14" and 14" × 11"

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