MENDING and REPAIR: Shirt Cuffs
This series grows from the materials I collect to make the work, the shirts and sweaters, as well as the very real need to have a break from larger pieces. They are an opportunity to explore possibilities that inform, expand, and question what I can do with this language of mending and embroidery, pattern and garment.
Textile and skin are intimately connected. Shirt cuffs surround and protect a vulnerable and sensitive area of our bodies. Stitches and mends may reveal the energy the garment lived when worn, the scars it earned in use, and an innate idiosyncratic experience of living and growing.
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