What Holds

From my loom to you: What Holds is a quiet reckoning. A series of eleven tiny tapestries and poems reflecting on marriage, motherhood, memory, and faith with gentleness and unflinching honesty.

I didn’t make these slowly, but in quick bursts, in the margins of chaos and noise. I used a small, handmade cardboard loom with reclaimed yarn- materials once part of other stories, now reworked into new forms. The process itself becomes a metaphor: pulling things apart, putting them together, finding beauty in what’s imperfect, unfinished.

This exhibition is not about resolution. It is about what remains. What holds us when we feel undone. What steadies us in seasons of exhaustion, surrender, or quiet joy. Each piece is paired with a poem- sometimes tender, sometimes questioning- adding language to what my hands have already said.

Across these works, I invite you to move slowly, to consider your own held places: grief that’s softened over time, friendships, the shared weight of love, the strength of simply staying.

What holds you?