Process
The Process
Danielle’s process begins long before the first stitch, sketch, or cut. Often it starts as a quiet sensing — a texture in the mind, a color felt before seen, a question carried in the body. Her ideas take shape slowly, through a kind of attuned listening: to dreams, to movement, to memory, to the materials themselves.
She moves between mediums fluidly — drawing, painting, stitching, layering — letting one act inform the next. Watercolor and ink sketches serve as emotional blueprints, capturing gestures and atmospheres that later emerge through fabric, thread, or form. Embroidery becomes a way to think with her hands. Sculptural quilting, a way to fold time and memory into dimension. Garment work, a way to enter the language of the body and ask it what it needs to carry or reveal.
Her studio rhythm is meditative and nonlinear. There are stretches of quiet refinement, sudden intuitive leaps, periods of unmaking and remaking. While she embraces slowness and care in her creative development, Dani brings clear intention and unwavering commitment to each project. She works with deep focus and honors deadlines with professionalism and respect for the collaborative process.
For her, making is not just a means to an end but a space of ritual, repair, and transformation. Each finished work carries this energy within it: the energy of presence, devotion, and of having truly been with the material — until it began to speak back.
