What Becomes Home
A G.L.U.E. Installation

What Becomes Home installation is a visual meditation on the concept of “home.” Spaces, places and people inform our perception of what becomes home. A place where one feels safe, feels at home. A place from which one’s strength of character is drawn, a place of making and doing, of memories, and loving feelings, the sensory experience of place, the smells, tastes.... that collectively tell us we’re home.
As long as we move away from home— because of economics, war, colonialism, or simply by choice—the strategies we possess to make and redefine home are imperative to our survival and vital in the shaping of our very identities. 
My piece, "Threads and Scars," is an endless scroll sewn with white crystal organza, gold foil, colored threads, feathers, with images from hand dyed organza  appliquéd shapes, making connections that conjure a story of relationships, experiences, joy and pain. They sew time together making a delicate moveable, loop-scroll, reifying a foundations of memories, ebbing and flowing through time. 

GLUE Members: Elaine Michaud, Sheila Ghidini, Regina Gilligan, Leigh Barbier, Laurie Polster, Bodil Fox, Joyce Ertel Hulbert, Elizabeth Medrano
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Traces of Threads and Scars, 2016
White and Dyed Organza, feathers, gold lamé, threads. 18'x4'

​Drawings from the Series