Cricket was raised in the Yoat mountains of Southern California and surrounding land. In 2021 they resettled in Portland Oregon, to continue higher education. Their Waldorf education largely shaped an egalitarian worldview, and morals around sustainability and natural/non-human kinship. Post BFA graduation, they have presented a solo exhibition of original work, been accepted into three group shows, secured a first artist’s residency, and been invited to interview for Artifice Podcast.

“My work is fueled by the complex dissonance of a modern human experience—dominant over and separate from the natural world. A dance between grief and hope, my art evokes visual representations of ambiguous loss of natural entities and celebrations of persistent patterns, teachers, medicine and kin. Process is essential to comprehension of my felted work as it represents a personal expression of a grieving ritual and the fusing of individuals into collective; an echoing of earthly interconnectedness, mycilial networks and coalescence. Bent knees allow flat palms to meet earth, expressing acts of care, reverence and patience–a physical prayer of grief, gratitude, and remembrance. My work aims to evoke an environmentally conscientious community of viewers through a declaration that we are a global community, equally responsible for the protection of Earth. Materials sourced from nature engage environmental agents as collaborators, not merely subject matter. Found objects and foraged materials are essential to my practice as an action of waste-stream disruption and a gesture to generative cycles of use and reuse in opposition to the waste-driven mindset of capitalism.”

Cricket’s current efforts focus on nourishing their fiber arts practice, and expanding their body of work, expressive platform, and cultural footprint.