REassemblies
REassemblies is an intimate collection of quilts made from my mother’s unfinished quilt tops, my childhood clothing she saved for decades, and other family and found fabrics that carry the weight of our shared history. the project began as a way to sit with grief after her passing, but it has grown into a deeper investigation of how cloth can hold memory, lineage, and the quiet labor of care that moves through generations of women.
each piece is a conversation between our hands—her stitches and mine—bridging time, loss, and the domestic knowledge she passed down to me. by working directly with her unfinished work, i’m not completing her quilts so much as reassembling the fragments of our relationship, allowing new forms to emerge from what she left behind. the baby clothes she kept for me become anchors of tenderness, reminders of the ways mothers preserve the smallest traces of their children.
each piece is a conversation between our hands—her stitches and mine—bridging time, loss, and the domestic knowledge she passed down to me. by working directly with her unfinished work, i’m not completing her quilts so much as reassembling the fragments of our relationship, allowing new forms to emerge from what she left behind. the baby clothes she kept for me become anchors of tenderness, reminders of the ways mothers preserve the smallest traces of their children.
the quilts in REassemblies are not nostalgic objects; they are material records of continuity, rupture, and repair. they sit at the intersection of personal archive and artistic practice, transforming inherited cloth into a language for grief, memory, and intergenerational care.
BACK TO HOME︎︎︎
BACK TO HOME︎︎︎
DOMESTIC LABOR™
jennifer is a textile artist whose quilt‑based practice centers memory, domestic space, and the often‑invisible labor of women. working with repurposed fabrics and found imagery, she creates layered compositions that transform everyday materials into intimate narratives. her work reflects the quiet strength of the women in her family, whose domestic practices and resourcefulness shaped her understanding of care, creativity, and survival.
before dedicating herself to her art full time, jennifer spent years working in architecture, a background that continues to inform her sensitivity to structure, materiality, and the built environment. this shift from architecture to textile art reflects a return to the tactile, domestic, and intergenerational forms of making that have always grounded her.
before dedicating herself to her art full time, jennifer spent years working in architecture, a background that continues to inform her sensitivity to structure, materiality, and the built environment. this shift from architecture to textile art reflects a return to the tactile, domestic, and intergenerational forms of making that have always grounded her.
raised in an immigrant household where mending, saving, and reusing cloth were both necessity and tradition, jennifer draws deeply from these inherited gestures. she is drawn to the emotional and material histories embedded in textiles — the softness of worn fabric, the scent of a childhood linen closet, and the traces of unpaid labor that linger in household materials. through quilting, hand‑sewing, and the slow, repetitive acts of repair, she honors these histories while reimagining domestic labor as a site of authorship and artistic expression.
jennifer’s work weaves together personal memory and collective lineage, challenging the boundaries between craft and contemporary art while elevating the everyday into something quietly resonant.
jennifer’s work weaves together personal memory and collective lineage, challenging the boundaries between craft and contemporary art while elevating the everyday into something quietly resonant.
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