And every time it happens..

a ceremony of stitches

A hybrid between an installation and a ceremony: participants are invited into an abstract space to stitch words from a poem onto white fabric. Clay feet anchor a wooden structure from which the fabrics hang, creating a calm, meditative atmosphere that welcomes people to reconnect with the ancient craft of embroidery.
Embroidery has long been a way of communicating through the visual language of pattern and motif, each symbol being a trace of where it was made, and by whom. Stitches carry stories forward, keeping them alive for those who encounter them later.

The installation is accompanied by a poem and a Neapolitan folk song, Il canto delle lavandaie del Vomero. As people embroider, I and three other 3 performers sing or chant together, alone or in chorus, using voice the way embroidery uses thread: to hold a story in the body and pass it on. For a moment, everyone becomes part of something happening collectively, a gathering of beings, a gentle reminder of what it means to work and create together.