A Stitched Memory

A Stitched Memory is composed of four knitted panels joined together with a cyanotype photograph of my grandparents printed across their surfaces. Following the loss of both of my grandparents, I found myself struggling with the gradual fading of their presence, particularly their voices and certain aspects of their likeness. This work became a way of sitting with that absence while attempting to hold onto what remains.

The piece is displayed alongside a 1920s sewing machine, arranged as though someone has just stepped away. This staging creates a sense of pause and incompletion, reflecting the fragile balance between remembering and forgetting. The knitted surface emphasizes care, repetition, and emotional labor, while the cyanotype process carries traces of time through its deep blue tonal range and softened image. Together, these materials transform the photograph into something unstable and living rather than fixed documentation.