Her face cropped from view, a woman in a grey jacket pauses, one hand resting on her shoulder and a red bag slung across her body. Densely stitched in yarn against a faded floral print, she becomes an anonymous figure: present, yet unseen, one of countless lives the world passes by.
PAUSE
145 x 94 cm
Hand-block print and raised wool hand embroidery on cotton casement
2025
This artwork is part of Mundane Musings, a pair of textile portraits of the common man: his quiet struggles, his invisibility, and his seeming irrelevance in the larger scheme of things.