Erin M. Riley weaves images of women in states of undress or exposure, personal objects or landscapes that are related to destruction and death – using traditional tapestry techniques. Riley Examines the honesty of sexuality but also how courtship, porn and sex is transforming due to the mass online depiction of these intimate moments.

“My work is the culmination of research into addiction, sexual experimentation, popular internet culture, the effects of single parent households, socio-economic status’ etc. I am drawn to the images taken for private exchanges that become littered on the internet. I am using my own images that I have sent to lovers as well as the objects that I have formed psychological attachments to, objects that have impacted people’s lives, displays of arrests, deaths, addictions.”