Textures of Memory

2016

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Textures of Memory is a tactile meditation on memory—its fragility, its persistence, and the quiet rituals we undertake to hold on to what is fading. Through simple, repetitive stitches on found and aged textiles, this body of work reactivates personal and collective fragments of the past, transforming them into intimate landscapes of presence.

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Working with discarded artefacts—old linens, photographs, and ephemera marked by time—I respond to the textures of decay and absence. These objects, often overlooked or forgotten, carry faint traces of lives once lived. Through embroidery, I attempt not to restore, but to listen—to let the cloth speak its own quiet language of erosion and endurance.

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Stitching becomes a mnemonic gesture: deliberate, meditative, and embodied. Each repeated mark is an act of remembrance—a way to stay connected to what is disappearing yet precious. These works do not aim to tell specific stories, but rather to evoke the emotional atmosphere of memory: blurred, fragmented, layered with fiction and longing.

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The slowness of stitch allows me to dwell with the material, to notice small things, to remain present with what resists clarity. This process is a kind of resistance in itself—against the speed of forgetting, against the disposability of emotion and material, against the cultural devaluation of slowness, softness, and care.

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Textures of Memory invite in a space of quiet reflection—where memory is not preserved as static truth, but continually re-stitched, re-felt, and re-imagined. It is an attempt to trace the contours of grief, tenderness, loss, and love—not as dramatic events, but as everyday textures that live quietly beneath the surface of our lives.

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