About
With an eye towards how craft and textiles may be a vehicle for critical thought, my work resides at the junction of design history, material storytelling, and ecological consciousness. Drawing on my background in Chinese textile traditions, I investigated the fragility and resilience of poison dart frogs—species whose skin simultaneously acts as a defence mechanism and a symbol of environmental warning—in the Rana Terra project.
By means of quilting and reverse appliqué, I turned fabric not only as a surface but also as a layered story reflecting the shedding and degradation resulting from Bd disease, so rendering textile a metaphor for biological sensitivity. This project let me investigate the cultural, aesthetic, and symbolic function of colour and surface in survival—both for frogs and, figuratively, for ourselves in the face of climate change.