(upbeat music) - I look at the home as a palette, and I found a roll of wax paper.

How could I turn this into something precious?

How could I manipulate this so it's re-seen as something else?

I can make art out of anything.

And so I started to deepen my exploration in materials that come from the domestic sphere, right?

The home.

And all those materials started to become my palette.

How can I redirect them so that they become something else, so that they disassociate with any gender role they might be associated with, betray their structural nature, defy any behavioral expectations that we have for them.

I can encourage the misbehaviors of these materials.

You know, I can use that as a vehicle for bigger ideas, that speak largely to the feminine experience.

I start with the mineral wool, which is soft like bread, and it crumbles, it flakes.

And I start by layering it with drizzled resin, flipping it over every day, I trim off what's dried, and then that's when the initial form starts to take shape.

And then inevitably I'll look at it and I'm like, "I don't think it's good enough," and then I break it down.

Or they break or fall, and I have to fix them.

I mean, things going wrong is really part of the process for me.

Growing up here, I very much felt the expectation to be a good girl, you know, and to be polite.

And I mean, God forbid, you know, you embarrass yourself, you embarrass your family, right?

And I think that is kind of idealized opposite of being messy.

I don't really believe in the single artistic genius anymore, this like isolated idea or island of brilliance.

I think that, you know, the real beauty of this work is about the connectivity that we have to one another, you know, as artists and as people, and we're all responding to the same cultural stimuli.

Someone sends you something or you see something, you're like, "Oh, that looks so much like my work."

Maybe it's better, maybe it's worse, but you feel kind of threatened.

And I've learned to reverse that, that's actually the thing, it means you're onto something, you know, it means that you're part of this greater awareness.