Textiles
Forgotten Beads
This piece is made from small objects and ephemera that have been lost or forgotten: pocket watch pieces, metal buttons, broken jewelry. Through the labour of embroidery, these seemingly worthless objects are elevated to opulent embellishments, worthy of time, attention and archive. I am interested in revealing the unlikely beauty of these discarded objects and understanding the untold narratives contained in what we throw away.
Salvage Threads: Material Resilience
This piece was first exhibited in Somerset House during the Festival of Social Science 2024. Visitors were asked to contribute to this work by inscribing a piece of their own resilience on the cloth: re-authoring the fabric with fragments of their own stories. Made from scrap fabric, deconstructed garments and found objects, this interactive piece explores resilience through textiles and objects that hold personal meaning. These everyday materials become powerful mediums for expressing and shaping our identities.
Visitors were invited to take a scrap of fabric and write or draw their response to the question: What object, person, place, or symbol represents resilience to you? They can then pin their piece of cloth anywhere on the patchwork.
The result is an ever-evolving, collaborative piece: a living document of diverse experiences and a collective reflection on resilience through objects and materials.
