Selvedge explores the tension between fragmentation and repair in the human experience.

Each portrait embodies both fragility and strength, highlighting how love, whether for oneself, for others, or for life itself, emerges through the act of restoration. Juxtaposing stark monochromatic imagery with intricate stitching, the work conveys emotional contrasts of fragility and strength, pain and healing, loss and hope.

Shelly Mars, 2025

Self, 2025

Jaz Douglas, 2025

The triptych memorializes three gender-nonconforming individuals and ponders gender expression, personal repair, connection, and resilience.

How do I deserve to be seen?

What makes you feel whole?

What do acts of self-love look like in your life?

How have you experienced belonging?

How does loneliness feel for you?

What does it mean to be seen, loved, and whole?

How do I deserve to be seen? What makes you feel whole? What do acts of self-love look like in your life? How have you experienced belonging? How does loneliness feel for you? What does it mean to be seen, loved, and whole?

The portraits were created through intentional observation and conversation with the subjects, exploring questions about identity, resilience, and self-expression, which is supplemented with accompanying audio in the artist’s voice.

Sashiko is a centuries-old Japanese tradition for mending and reinforcing textiles and articles of clothing that were previously worn, weak, or in disrepair.

Each deliberate stitch becomes a moment of introspection, solitude, and quiet determination.

Through this process, beauty and intimacy are found in the process of repair, and restoration embodies the human desire for connection and becoming whole again.

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