THE GAME OF BASEBALL NEVER EVEN OCCURRED TO ME

Textiles function in my work as metaphors for emotional foundations. Entrapped objects are memories of formative experiences. These objects are embedded within the fabric of our experiences, memories that will never go away. These immutable features can only be built upon, never removed. 

This bat is positioned forever immediately before a strike, a snapshot of a moment. Does freezing this moment in time rob it of its power, or glorify it? Neither: it is simply documentation. We cannot change the past, but documentation of a backlog of memories clears the way to allow my mind to look forward. I utilize textile processes – their time-intensiveness, their metaphor as foundational emotional materials – as a way to process my past experience to create meaning in the present.