Textile Narratives

Textile Narratives is built from a small domestic world: worn rugs, old garments, embroidered cloths, bedding, family photographs, and drawings. The materials come from rooms where people sat low, slept near each other, ate, waited, rested.

 

Through appliqué, the figures are returned to that world, back to surfaces already shaped by bodies. They lie down because the work is not trying to stand upright for the room. It wants to remain low, close, and partly held inside the material that carries it.
 

 

The materials show that they have been touched, used, damaged and kept. What holds the work together is a kind of knowledge carried through posture and use.

This series were exhibited at Art Space Gallery, Toronto, 2024.