Girlhood, Remembered

In collaboration with Andrea Drews, Madelaine Smith, Lynsey Stratton, and Natalie Tracey

2023

Repurposed bed sheets

8’ x 8’

In our striving to create under our own expectations, sometimes the joy of making slips through. We set out to reimagine something that characterized our childhood, something the allowed for furniture forts, crocheting techniques, color and freedom and craft to take up space, and to allow the makers to work in memory of our younger years, not in an attempt to recreate them, but to cherish times past. We spent long hours watching childhood movies, reminiscing on girlhood, tea parties, toys and tv shows. It was an event that took place in a living room, on soft carpet and cushioned couches. Sweet treats like ice cream and cinnamon rolls enhanced the peaceful work environment. The results of those two nights spent working together now is weighty and soft, and forms to its environment, allowing new memories to be made and old ones to be propped back up in time and space.