A lesson on how to let go, 10 minutes and 9 seconds

Canvas fabric, plastic, thread, beads, found mens shorts, 5,3' x2,3'

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Through the process of creation, the maker and the object develop a strong bond. There will always be a fragment of the artist in the final product. On the surface of a sculpture hide a thousand fingerprints, threads of an embroidery show the hours spent sewing it. Often times, looking at your past work feels like an album of old photographs, with each work reminding you of a feeling, a memory, a moment in time. 

Our creations come to hold this religious importance and then, how could we ever intervene? With time, it becomes harder to change or let them go, fearing that you will lose the part of you that you've invested. Personally, I have found this to be true with my work, but even more so with my interpersonal relationships. Being too afraid to let go leaves you trying to latch onto people, in a desperate effort to live in the past. 

This embroidery is a collection of memories coming out of a four year relationship. Sewing every thread, this quilt occupied my time everyday for four months, only for its final destiny to be destruction.  

 

Video by Keith Robitaille 

Photography by Melodie Newman & Carly Rosenthal