Writing Home
[2022]
[WRITING HOME]
[Textile and Exhibition Design]
[2022] [WRITING HOME] [Textile and Exhibition Design]
Object as Archive: Creating a replicate archive of text based objects as to explore notions of generational relationships.
I grew up with both a large maternal and paternal extended family, yet have longed for a sense of connection amongst the crowd. In searching for a starting point, I clung to the archival elements of my immediate family; handwritten notes sent through mail, cards and letters collected over years.
In thinking about how generations develop and the reflection of that through objects and archives, I hope to explore tactility and storytelling as they relate to generational progression. In creating large scale works revolving around the replication of the handwriting of those related to me, I aim to better understand the tactility of relationships and offer a route to visualizing such connections.
How do relationships wear overtime?
[CRAFTING AN ARCHIVE OF FEELING]
How do relationships wear overtime? [CRAFTING AN ARCHIVE OF FEELING]
A collector of objects, German-born artist Maurin Stubbs works to transform correspondence with her family into an archive of recreations as an exploration of feeling. Maurin recreates the notes with embroidery, focusing on extracting different elements– the text, the wear on the paper and the dimension. Enlarging them beyond actual size, she works to emphasize the material quality of her relationship with her parents, who live far away, and how it has changed over time, just as the notes, some sent across oceans, have changed with time, accumulating wear.
The extraction and recreation of different elements from her original objects stands in as an ongoing conversation with her parents. In each piece, as Maurin crafts this ‘Archive of Feeling,’ she uses her parents’ handwriting to archive not only her feelings at the time of receiving the notes, but also her feelings now, documenting the wear with time on the paper as well as the wear on relationships.
