For the past three years I have been fascinated with using leaves as a material to stitch. I have created a number of installations of cocoon forms made from hand-stitching together found leaves. The resulting artworks are ephemeral and delicate, and refer to the transitory nature of life.
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'Becoming,' hand stitched leaf cocoons, installation view, 2013
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'Becoming,' hand stitched leaf cocoons, 2011-2013
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The Inevitable Impermanence of all Things, 2014