stitched

for professor,

dedicated to his mama bear <3

robert has been supportive of my creative life since the beginning of our friendship. it broke my heart when i found out his mother became ill, and it broke even more when she passed. 

i asked him to give me the colors for how he felt:

black, blue, green, red, brown

then i asked it him to send me some of her handwriting.

taking all of that in, this was my effort to support and love him. 

“your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle,

and everything i do is stitched with it’s color” 

W.S. Merwin

cotton embroidery thread, polyester sewing thread,

nylon fishing line, steel sewing needle on salvaged burlap

august  2013