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How has your work changed and developed since you began? I keep trying to streamline and make things more commercial, but I can never stop being a perfectionist! Who or what inspires your aesthetic choices? I am inspired by quilts, flea markets, traveling, Scandinavia, Indonesia, Indian and Mexican textiles. I am also influenced by art, surfing and California beach culture. Some artists I admire are Cornelia Parker, Cy Twombly, Tomma Abts, Mary Heilmann, Anni Albers, Steven Parrino, Arturo Herrera, Charlene von Heyl, Amy Sillman, Margaret Kilagallen, Florine Stettheimer and Hannah Höch. I want to make things that people keep and pass down to their children. Can you elaborate about your commitment to creating handmade goods? The only thing I really know how to do is make handmade goods. When I was a kid and thinking about what kind of artist I wanted to be, I decided to go this route over graphic and applied arts because I loved the immediacy and control of touching the materials. I still feel the same way.