Mended & Healed

 “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” - Rumi

Cross stitching is related to what has historically been labeled ‘women’s work’ and so much of the resilience we need to move forward in our personal and collective trauma is going to require challenging that history while honoring it. These stitches mend and heal, but also bind... connect, yet tether... they provide texture and grit, but are also buried in fresh paint... a collection of complex ambivalent feelings are interlaced into this canvas. I believe making a literal surface to witness both sides of those dualities serves as a visual metaphor for an internal landscape that is deeply familiar, somehow.

This work gently asks the viewer to take small care and quietly lean in to listen to those even minute tears that ask to be healed.