Work in Progress

Artistic inquiries into bodies, territories, and belonging.

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TEXTILES OF MEMORY

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Dishcloths, floor cloths, and flour sacks form the material starting point of this ongoing artistic inquiry into migration and freedom. Drying, cleaning, scrubbing, protecting, and storing food are gestures through which everyday life is sustained. These textiles bring the labour of care into contact with journeys across territories.

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A cloth touches what a home contains. It absorbs, carries, wears down. Here, it becomes a surface for thinking about memory: the gestures we repeat, the belongings we take, and the ways we rebuild a place to live. What remains of home when we leave? What travels with us?

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The visual studies bring migrating birds and people in transit onto these surfaces. Their journeys meet through the search for conditions that sustain life, while human movement encounters borders, permissions, and unequal possibilities of passage. The flight of birds opens a question: what would it mean for people to move freely, with dignity and a place to arrive?

Suspended among trees, the textiles place the intimacy of domestic life within an open landscape. The clothesline becomes a temporary arrangement of belonging: cloth held between points, exposed to air, carrying images of bodies in motion. Wind moves the fabric as birds move through the surrounding territory.

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The gestures of cleaning and protecting acquire another dimension here. They speak of the work needed to sustain life wherever we are — and of the right to shelter, food, care, and welcome. Freedom takes shape as the possibility of leaving, arriving, or remaining by choice.

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Between the household cloth and the open sky, this research asks how we inhabit the earth, what we carry across it, and what makes room for another life.