Stitch Along Broken Line

Dart here. Cut two. Place on fold. Take a little in, let a little out.

The work in this show represents fragments of personal and collective histories. I use both found and family photographs as a way to dive into themes of memory, narrative, and the archive. I am interested in the way we collect and define our lives through images. The photographs hold the evidence of our existence. They carry the weight of nostalgia, identity, and loss, but simultaneously serve as the proof that we were here. The pattern pieces are the blueprint, quite literally, for what we choose to connect to and carry with us. We follow instructions, we make our own rules. We cut a little here and gain a little there. By enlarging, overlaying, and mixing patterns with new and old photographs, the individual memories they hold blend, blur, and become new stories in their arrangements.

These are the instructions on how to make… how to be made… how to stitch along the broken line to build something new.