Emma
2024

My mixed media collection emerges from this interplay of memory and a sense of home away from home. I draw deeply from my own intertwined experiences. The dance between foreground, middle ground, and background becomes a metaphor for the layers of memory and experience. All of these pieces are bound to a card of sheet music. Emma is written on each of the cards. This handwritten element is not by my hand, but rather, a woman who has passed down a small part of her. I honor this exchange by adding parts of me to her story. Encased in the machine stitching are small mementos of myself. I am found in the dried flowers collected in my yard, tea bags from my morning steep or pieces of fabric from clothing I have worn. All of these are two-sided collages. Both the front and the back are cause and effect of what is happening on the other side. It is a reminder that two things can be true at the same time while seemingly being completely detached from one another.