Anamneses
Anamneses: the recollection or remembrance of things past.
This body of 2-D and 3-D work draws specifically on memories of sewing with my grandmother and of my experiences in India embroidering with women in remote villages. I am interested in the basic connection we have with textiles, how they are used from birth to death, in rituals, ceremonies and everyday life. The creation of textile items through stitching and sewing is often a communal activity and skills are learned from one generation to another. My own memories mingle with a collective history and the items produced become containers of memory, tradition and experience.
All works are cardboard, latex, acrylic, varnish, and waxed linen thread.
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Conjuring Ancestors - 48" x 48" - private collection
Sail On - 10" x 6" x 4"
Sitting in Calm - 36" x 41"
Patches - 11.5 x 4 x 4.5 ″ - private collection
Made of Smoke - 36" x 36" - private collection
Imagine What Was Lost - 6" x 10" x 5"
Kente - 40.5" x 42.5" - private collection
Stalled - 6.5” x 5” x 3.5”
Diamond Quilt - 38" x 50" - private collection
Raya - 6" x 6" x 4" - private collection
Undulations 2 - 46" x 72" - private collection
Is That Right? - 9" x 15" x 5"
Elusive Sleep - 36" x 36"
Otto - 8" x 3" x 4.5" - private collection
Drenched in Enthusiasm - 48" x 47"
Mini Me - 6" x 5" x 4" - private collection
Constellation - 48" x 48"
Why So Blue? - 11" x 7" x 5"
Nettie Jane - 40" x 43.5"
Bumble - 10" x 9" x 7"
Confetti 2 - 30" x 38" - private collection
Step Up - 13" x 15" x 5" - private collection
No Doubt - 24" x 26.5"
Wisp - 6" x 7.5" x 4" - private collection
Big Blue Comfort - 48" x 87" - private collection
Somber One - 14" x 11" x 5" - private collection
Ma Willie - 34" x 71" - private collection
Worth Her Weight - 57" x 25" - private collection
It Gives Me Pause - 7.5" x 3: x 4.5"
Sometimes Ticking - 44.5" x 39" - private collection
Owing to One - 9" x 10" x 3.5"
To Have and To Hold - 15" x 12 x 7" - private collection
Blue Undulations - 38" x 40" - private collection