new additions

a door frame

more connections

and a ceiling


a detail shot

Having recently relocated, I feel a sense of dislocation between my current and former home; an uncomfortable pull between two locations. This project is an investigation of my dislocation between these two urban locations. I have created a passageway, sided with two vertical walls of embroidery, and filled with a chaotic web of connecting threads. Each wall is carefully embroidered with the road map of a specific urban space that I have occupied. The locations within those cities that I have the most knowledge of are embroidered in black thread, which fades to white as I get farther and farther away from my learned points of reference. The interior of the passageway reflects my physical and psychological back and forth between these two locations. As I struggle to find the connections between these two urban spaces, the entangling threads begin to pull at the two surfaces, forcing an unnatural topography onto the landscape, and forming a space where the two places live closer to each other than they ever could in reality.

The protracted process of rerecording these maps in the careful and delicate medium of embroidery allows me to make analytical observations, to reflect on my experiences in these locations, and act as a cartographer; exploring the landscape on different level. I take great joy in discovering the little pockets of merging lines and hidden formations that are visible only in their delicate retracing. Through the careful inspection of the expansiveness contained within the map, I can know the place a little better and begin to locate myself within the landscape of home.