Standpoint Gallery, 45 Coronet St, London N1 6HD

This piece, Fragment, resulted from a collaboration with Ruth Grimberg and was shaped by a shared experience of loss—the loss of my mum and Ruth's mother’s fading memory. We sought a way to bring our different practices together. We experimented with scale, light, and color to merge our distinct approaches. Ruth worked with soluble onion skin dyes combing with  soluble mineral salts to form an insoluble bond within the fibers of the cloth, a semi-permanence amid transformation. The cloth, a tactile symbol of comfort and fragility, stretched and flattened across the lightbox's rigid frame bound to fade, soften, darken, and dull, as tenuous as memory’s hold. My mother’s doilies, once placed purposefully around the house, are now pinned together against a window in her home, filtering light and casting shadows. In our Lightbox installation, Jennifer’s fragile, semi-translucent tissue paper photographs of her mother’s doilies and my screen-printed fabrics are laid closely together— dark lines where the pieces overlap cut through the soft blue inks, orange, and brown dyes. The light shining through the work brings out the grain and texture of the paper and fabric creating an artificial brilliance that vanishes when the light fades.