From my first creative acts, repetition and pattern have been dominant features. This interest in pattern and repetition, as well as slowness, labor, craft, and material presence, are influenced by my neurodiverse experience (dyslexia, dysgraphia, etc.), which complicates my relationship to symbolic language, especially text-based communication. I value the expansive potential of visual art as a language that communicates on multiple levels simultaneously and poetically, without being bound by the way meaning functions in word-based form. This allows for alternative modes of creative connection. In art-making, I can work with ideas, experiences, and webs of connection, which unfold visually as felt experience.  Working with the ineffable and the liminal in this way enables me to draw from the full range of my ability, including my disability. This is life-sustaining.