Mourning Veil | Unbleached cotton, watercolor, cotton embroidery floss | 2023 - Ongoing

The Mourning Veil is a collaboratively embroidered textile artifact, acting as a tactile repository for tales of ecological grief. Through stitching and embroidery circles, facilitated by the artist as part of Sympoietic Society’s ICE * In Case of Emergency project, participants were invited to share and partake in stories of deep environmental loss and care. Personal anecdotes, memories and emotions evoked by a changing climate and landscapes were gradually transcribed on a wide cotton cloth, allowing individuals to come together and find meaning and healing in the shared act of creation.

Photo credit: Paul Staring, documented during a workshop held by the artist for Sympoietic Society | September 2023, Der Kulturraum Burgruine Blumenegg, AT