Passages is a series of free-standing lace embroideries that explore movement through constraint. Each piece begins with a simple premise: colored paths enter a defined structure, encounter turns, divisions, and moments of compression, and eventually find their way out.
The black framework acts as both boundary and guide—suggesting architecture, systems, or imposed order—while the colored lines move with varying degrees of clarity, hesitation, and entanglement. Some paths remain direct, others wander, loop, or nearly disappear before re-emerging.
Stitched without a fabric ground, the work exists in space as much as on the surface. Shadows become part of the composition, echoing the idea that every path carries both a visible journey and a quieter, less defined one beneath it.
Together, the pieces suggest that passage is rarely linear. It is shaped by structure, but never fully determined by it.
Passages #1: Laminar Flow Multiple paths enter a narrow channel and are forced into close alignment before dispersing again. The structure compresses movement, but does not stop it—each line maintains its direction, even as it adapts to the constraint.
Passages #2: Merging Flow - Reunion Separated paths diverge, cross, and recombine within a shifting structure before emerging together again. The journey is less direct, shaped by turns and intersections, but ultimately resolves in a shared direction.
Passages #3: Turbulent Flow One path moves with clarity from entry to exit, while others wander, loop, and struggle to find continuity. Not all passages resolve in the same way—some arrive, some falter, and some remain unfinished.
Each piece is created solely with embroidery thread. They are mounted in custom made shadow boxes with non-glare acrylic glazing and a white mat. The size is 15.2 × 15.2 x 1.25 in (385 × 385 x 35 mm).
Passages is a series of free-standing lace embroideries that explore movement through constraint. Each piece begins with a simple premise: colored paths enter a defined structure, encounter turns, divisions, and moments of compression, and eventually find their way out.
The black framework acts as both boundary and guide—suggesting architecture, systems, or imposed order—while the colored lines move with varying degrees of clarity, hesitation, and entanglement. Some paths remain direct, others wander, loop, or nearly disappear before re-emerging.
Stitched without a fabric ground, the work exists in space as much as on the surface. Shadows become part of the composition, echoing the idea that every path carries both a visible journey and a quieter, less defined one beneath it.
Together, the pieces suggest that passage is rarely linear. It is shaped by structure, but never fully determined by it.
Passages #1: Laminar Flow Multiple paths enter a narrow channel and are forced into close alignment before dispersing again. The structure compresses movement, but does not stop it—each line maintains its direction, even as it adapts to the constraint.
Passages #2: Merging Flow - Reunion Separated paths diverge, cross, and recombine within a shifting structure before emerging together again. The journey is less direct, shaped by turns and intersections, but ultimately resolves in a shared direction.
Passages #3: Turbulent Flow One path moves with clarity from entry to exit, while others wander, loop, and struggle to find continuity. Not all passages resolve in the same way—some arrive, some falter, and some remain unfinished.
Each piece is created solely with embroidery thread. They are mounted in custom made shadow boxes with non-glare acrylic glazing and a white mat. The size is 15.2 × 15.2 x 1.25 in (385 × 385 x 35 mm).
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