Carrying, Wrapping, Waiting, Remembering is a large-scale textile installation suspended from the ceiling of the gallery space. The pale cotton cloth extends in long draped arcs, moving from ceiling to floor and back again, before resting on the concrete floor. The textile measures 26 feet in length, representing the 26 years the artist has lived with the places, people, and memories embedded in the work.
Woven into the surface is a collage of family photographs, quilt patterns, and Google Earth screen captures from Akron, Ohio, the artist’s hometown. The imagery appears softly embedded in the cloth, forming subtle patterns and layered textures that echo the visual language of quilts and domestic textiles.
The work reflects the artist’s ongoing interest in how quilts, weavings, and heirloom textiles hold and transmit memory and tradition. By translating personal and geographic imagery into woven cotton, the installation foregrounds fiber craft as a form of cultural memory and expands its role as both archive and artistic practice.Carrying, Wrapping, Waiting, Remembering makes visible the histories, stories, and memories that move through textiles and are carried alongside us over time.
