This Piece Means Home
2023, watercolor on paper collage, 3’x3’.
This work is a self portrait formed by a collage of found textiles that I reproduced through watercolor paintings. Each textile was chosen by a member of my community as a pattern that represents safety, comfort, and home for them. When placed together, the ways in which these textiles interact and connect represents the ways in which strangers can become family.
This work was first exhibited in 2023 in Bibliowicz Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.