Project Statement:
My current practice combines printmaking and quilting to explore how memory fragments through grief and loss. The death of my mother at a young age sits at the center of my practice, shaping how I understand material, process, and the slow labor of making. Pulling imagery from her photographic archive, I revisit images of our home, birthday parties, and small moments of daily life, where her memory and absence overlap. Through the language of photopolymer gravure printing, I translate these photographs into fabric, reflecting how she stays with me: in faded, deconstructed images.
Traditional quilting patterns form a structure through which I explore this sense of fragmentation. I print, cut, and reassemble the fabric until the images begin to dissolve into abstraction. These fragmented but familiar patterns mirror the disorientation of grief and how memory shifts or fades unexpectedly over time. In these pieced compositions, the negative space becomes as critical as the printed image; it speaks to what has been lost, erased, or can no longer be retrieved. Ultimately, I utilize the tactile qualities of cloth and the visual impression of printing to evoke the body’s proximity to the past, and my practice becomes less about preserving what was and more about witnessing what remains: the material residue of love, grief, and the persistence of remembering.