I form stories with fabric and found objects. From a set of smiles to a stopped clock, my hand-sewn puppets and mixed-media assemblages revisit moments in memory in order to navigate identity, language, loss, and, ultimately, human connection. In one, an emotional account is conveyed through a brushstroke, in the other through a pursed lip. Each sculpture represents a blend of influences - among them Colombian, German and Jewish - and a merging of the self, the imaginary and the ancestral. With equal esteem for the serious and the playful, I animate the inanimate and, in doing so, create contemporary narratives from that which has come before.