"I like to hook dogs that are pretty 'mutty' looking, that don't look like yard-bound Golden Retrievers or Doodles," she tells Colossal. "I'm attracted to the shared history of humans and dogs-how the bulk of their domestication may have happened somewhat inadvertently."
"It's a slower, more traditional process," she says, but the process allows each individual loop to be applied at a different height, giving her the ability to create three-dimensional reliefs.
"I'm lucky that the rugs sort of do inspire tender feelings in the people who see them, but that they're also a bit uncanny," she says.
"I really feel like I've built a relationship with the object," she says, adding: "Sometimes the dogs I hook have wounds or scars. The dog rug I'm working on right now is missing a little chunk of her ear."
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