Materials for Resting Place is a performance that brings together textiles, sentimental objects, and craft gestures to form a soft archive shaped through touch and time. In the performance, the artist sits on the floor of the attic of her childhood home. Beneath a circular window, the artist slowly stitches the rubber goodyear blimp toy into the quilts with needle and thread.
During the performance, objects from the artist’s family history are placed onto soft square cushions and pressed into the fabric with the artist’s hands. The artist then stitches around the objects’ outlines, leaving a trace of their form embedded in the textile surface. Through this process, the objects are escased within the quilts preserving their presence and importance.
These repeated gestures transform touch and labor into acts of care, remembrance, and memory made visible. The quilts become tender sites of remembering—textiles that hold grief, lineage, and the slow endurance of memory, while reflecting on how traditions and personal histories shift and fade through generational transmission.