SEWING AS A DESIGN PRACTICE: DATA Visualizations (2021-current)
Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic my typical digital approaches to making weren’t possible because working on the computer, any longer than I had to, wasn’t viable nor desired. I turned to making analog sewn data visualizations about mothers in the paid labor force, their decline during the pandemic, costs of childcare vs. minimum wage incomes, and what mothers this impacts most. In parallel I wrote about this practice as a feminist act that challenges the technical tools, consumerism, and patriarchal systems in graphic design for my essay, On Designing with Authenticity over Perfection (published in Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design, MIT Press, edited by Ali Place).