Mixed Media: quilted paper and fabric, handmade paper, woodblock relief print, monotype, cyanotype, hand embroidery
Undergraduate
Is home a place? Or is home who you go back to? The House That Held Us is a collection of multimedia work that unveils the tainted nostalgia of childhood after experiencing divorce. Working from memory, photographs, and home videos, the work explores if we can trust the authenticity of familial love from times where we are too young to recall it. Quilting with paper and cyanotypes on fabric reflect the fragility of memory, and the way that time inevitably warps it. There is a fondness present in the gentle and colorful aesthetic which expresses the whimsy and innocence of our youth. This work invites the viewer to reflect on their own memories of childhood and reconsider how much their impression of the past has been altered by the passage of time.
