emotional landscapes

[Sewing onto fabric, 2022] We are all dynamic beings in both our movements and emotions, our every interaction with a place or space changes and is distorted in our mind and over time. This piece illustrates my exploration into how our emotions abstract places. Using fabric as my canvas, I created this emotional landscape by sewing a series of overlapping thread layers. With each layer I worked at different scales whilst moving further from illustrating reality and closer towards a raw emotion to dictate how I perceive these spaces in my mind.

The piece is displayed draped to exaggerate its fluidity and to mimic my constant change of emotions in its movement. Here one can walk under and around, exposing both sides of the fabric, one side with cleaner lines and the other stating the chaotic nature of the mark-making process. I kept these loose threads uncut as I felt this quite perfectly expressed the multitude of fleeting, but ever existing, emotions experienced with each line I sewed.

^Video documenting the making of the piece.

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