Since 1995, I have worked in community-based alternative media. Writing zines, hosting community radio shows, and organizing all-ages punk rock concerts have all figured part of my DIY (do it yourself) ethic of creating culture, archiving counter-cultural happenings, and subverting mainstream cultural constructs. Using resources that are readily available have always figured prominently in my work, from found home furnishings to fabric scavenged from the dumpsters behind thrift stores to assemble my own clothes. In recent years, I have also begun to work in embroidery, inspired by my mother's non-stop quilting. Reconnecting with matrilineal methods that have become professionalized and/or commodified figure an important part of my feminist art practice that seeks to explore such themes as distance, alienation, women's work, and modes of communication in the digital age of mass information.