Along that Gleaming Edge
Walnut hull dyed cotton, glass seed beads, image found in Hungarian photo pile, reclaimed wood, washed onto the marsh
Dimensions: 16 x 5 x 4 inches
Dimensions: 16 x 5 x 4 inches
Referencing poems by Attila József, Along that Gleaming Edge combines a beadwork frame with naturally dyed cotton.
The image highlighted in this work was found in a pile of anonymous photos in an old photography store in Budapest, picturing a forlorn body of water that reminds me of the poet’s writing. Specifically, it reminded me of the poem Külvárosi Éj // Suburban Night, in which the night is used as a device to display ideas usually hiding beneath the surface. The wood I chose to mount it to connects to both the image and the poem–found along the marsh in Savannah, with unfettered nature on one side and the roar of the highway on the other. Through naturally dying the cotton that I stitched the beads and the image into, I connect it to the wood, and the ground it was plucked from.
Breathing Silver, Sharpshoot Whisper
Weld dyed linen, silk shaded cotton, metal thread
24.5 x 13 x 5 inches
Spring 2024
Affixed to an industrial thread feeder, found on the periphery in Savannah, Georgia
In a space that traded hands over the years, from being a movie theatre, to a church, to a mattress factory, eventually left derelict, populated only by the soft shiver of doves in the decaying rafters
A mourning dove, a doleful cry, wrought iron fences, a wind from somewhere just beyond
How can textiles interact with natural dyes and post-industrial spaces, holding memory within thread? Dyer’s weld, a common weed, can be harnessed through heat, providing honey yellow, the cream of filtered sunlight. Industrial ecology, manifest in spaces slowly overrun by the nature they once replaced...the echo of lives piling onto one another, like the flutter of many wings
Looking to Hungarian folk songs and tales, in which birds are able to convey messages humans cannot, rising above fences
Szüleimnek // Circled In Silver
Glass seed beads, cotton, worked and unwoven, family image, reclaimed wood
20 x 11 x 1.5 inches
2024
An exploration of family ties, of the bond that holds, even as it frays
Industrial wood remnant, tough milled, and left to dust
Made for my parents, for their 30th wedding anniversary
Exploring visual signifiers of purity and time, long since past, through building up a mass of beads. Although I usually incorporate images of anonymous Hungarians in my work, stitching alongside an image of my parents on their wedding felt poignant. The relationship between family and strangers is something I explore through my practice, allowing me to better understand the opposing nature of relationships.
20 x 11 x 1.5 inches
2024
An exploration of family ties, of the bond that holds, even as it frays
Industrial wood remnant, tough milled, and left to dust
Made for my parents, for their 30th wedding anniversary
Exploring visual signifiers of purity and time, long since past, through building up a mass of beads. Although I usually incorporate images of anonymous Hungarians in my work, stitching alongside an image of my parents on their wedding felt poignant. The relationship between family and strangers is something I explore through my practice, allowing me to better understand the opposing nature of relationships.