My work is interdisciplinary installation, textile, paper and books. Textiles are vintage linens from my Italian and Irish grandmothers and sourced from friends and strangers around the country. Each donation is documented and integrated into the story of the work. For color I forage for raw materials, cook dyes, grind pigments, including oak gall wasp nests, cochineal insects, turmeric, indigo, and clay. Textile wraps our bodies from cradle to grave, a form of protection and adornment. During a time of increased vulnerability, bodies are at greater risk, and exposed in our jobs, communities, and institutions in ways that reflect the inequity and lack of human-focused safety nets. The combination of earth and body in these works references human and environmental devastation, and the conflation of nature and women's bodies as justifications for exploitation. Mournful and solastalgic, these works are lamentations to the ongoing violence against women and the earth.

— Patricia Miranda