Entranced with American superstitions and lore, McFarland utilizes paint and fibrous mediums, like weaving and embroidery, to explore the haunting of memory and ancestry—both real and imagined. She depicts familiar scenes of the south, symbols of death, and childlike portraiture with a sensitivity for mark making and color. The frenzy of line and attention to saturation recall the blurriness and uncertainty of developing time; the physicality of tradition is then mimicked through oil paints and thread. Often drawing simultaneously from her own lineage and art history, McFarland hopes to convey the illusionistic and conflated body that remembrance ultimately becomes.