The ALLOWANCE series is part of my ongoing love affair with the power of invitation, with finding out what happens when you ask people to unleash themselves. When you commit in advance to caring a whole bunch about what someone makes.

I worked with six designers in Knoxville over the course of 2022 for this series of self-portraits. I gave each designer creative freedom to make a garment specifically for me to wear. Once I had their pieces, I designed and painted eight-foot-square paper backdrops in response to their work and posed for the portrait. I organized and installed a showing at The Boocherie for the month of October, 2022.