The Last Piece

This collection started with a decision I almost didn't make. I flew to Sri Lanka alone because I felt lost, in my art and in myself, and I ended up in a warehouse a long way from anywhere, learning to sew from a group of women who barely spoke my language. I rode back every day for a week. We shared meals, laughs, and eventually, the words they live by.

Each piece is a portrait of one of those women, painted directly onto the real rice-sack fabric she works with every day, carrying her own words stitched into the story. To me, this isn't just a collection about them,  it's about how our own lives are a puzzle of decisions, sewn together one by one, until they become who we are. This is my thank you to them, and my promise to myself to keep choosing what excites me over what scares me.

Susanthani's words were quiet, but they landed hard. Of everything anyone told me that week, this is the one I still think about. This piece is painted directly onto the real, repurposed rice-sack fabric she works with every day.

This piece carries Susanthani's own words, written in Tamil: நான் என்னை நேசிக்கிறேன் "I love myself."

• Size: 105 x 110cm, unstretched
• One-of-one original, hand-painted on repurposed rice sack material
• Ships rolled, ready to mount or frame