Sewing Ecologies began as a series of weekly gatherings. Each session invites participants to mend a broken white cloth together, working the same piece by hand. Mending, here, is both ritual and method: a repetitive, spiritual process that opens space for sensitivity and exchange between people who are often strangers to each other. The white thread on white fabric keeps the labor nearly invisible, the way care work so often is, made tangible only through the collective act of doing it. Session by session, the group's mending becomes both the process and the material of the piece, carrying forward the same time-consuming, body-based knowledge behind my other works. It was first shown as a textile and video installation at the 2024 Rundgang and later that year at the exhibition “All hands on Care”.

It grew into a series of workshops I've now led for two years across Berlin and Venice. It continues a question: what it means to slow down enough for a fiber to hold something? A meaning, a trace of a conversation, a language outside of words. In the workshops, I try shifting that inquiry from a solitary practice into a collective one.