Weeping Memory (the remains) suggests a weeping upon remembrance, not limited to sorrowful memory, but weeping as a release. A release of memory. We use tissues to weep into and we also use tissues to wipe away our tears. These tear shapes, most often individually cut into the tissue also imply the trace of a once tear. The tissues memory.

The monotonous process of cutting and sewing encourages the emergence of past memory or thought. Sometimes memory is all that remains, and sometimes the memory itself is lost. I work with tissues for their conceptual value and of their fibrous quality of being so fragile yet so strong. Strength and fragility in my view, is the sum of feminism in which my work practice is often associated with. The cutting out of tears representing a hollowness or void, with the cutting in reminiscent of pain and a scarring perhaps from silent weeping, the weeping of women, unheard cries remaining now only as a memory with their will to carry on. Weeping memory is designed to be like a blanket to cover for comfort and protect and designed like a veil to cover/uncover what is hidden beneath. In it’s finished state, Weeping Memory is about loss, salvage and longing.