I'm Antoinette, and I speak yarn
Yarn saved my life, and I speak it as my native tongue. During a difficult childhood, I found peace and escape through a hook or needle and skein. Over the course of some decades and an eclectic collection of careers, the yarn kept me from disappearing completely into the darkness. In 2022, I began creating artworks that place surreal and macabre motifs in dreamy landscapes, engaging the viewer through texture, intricate detail, and vivid color. Inspired by historical and contemporary surrealists and fiber artists such as Sheila Hicks and Danielle Clough, I am continuously developing experimental and innovative fiber and mixed media techniques to serve the deeply personal themes of my work — trauma and recovery, queerness, existentialism, and resistance, but above all the joy of being alive and able to play with yarn and with art in this moment.