Cheney Studio at the MacDowell Colony...

Digital images, photocopies, vintage fabric and silk thread...

Considering memory, process and aura surrounding personal objects and images and the unforeseen influence they on us. My mother left her country moving thousands of miles away to create a new life for herself. I spent time contemplating the 'material' construction of her life from black and white photos and remnants of her clothing-unraveling the threads. I was part of that 'construction' and wasn't to learn much of her story until years later. Loss of country, family and language left her with just enough 'thread' to salvage and recreate a life elsewhere. In order to tell her story I needed to learn about it myself-attempting to dismantle thread by thread an idea of her life reconstructing it as a kind of visual tapestry.

m. Yoho dorsey

m. Yoho dorsey