Craft → Object → Painting

My art begins with sewing, an act of craft.

I construct the canvas itself, creating the very surface that will later receive paint. With scissors in hand, I cut the fabric into different forms, using sewing to give it its final silhouette.

Finally, I begin painting onto what has become a constructed object.

Being able to make something with my hands feels deeply human to me. I feel a profound sense of pride, one that settles quietly in the deepest part of my heart.

As I learn to build my art from fabric, thread, and colour, I find my soul being built alongside it.

I do not see craft and art as separate disciplines. In my practice, sewing, cutting, constructing, and painting are all part of the same creative act. The artwork begins long before the first brushstroke.

Here’s a little of what I made when I first started sewing canvases.

My initial idea was to make canvas scrolls. I was drawn to the thought that a finished painting did not have to feel fixed or static, as it often does on a stretched canvas. There was something appealing about an artwork that could be rolled open and closed.

Yet something about it never quite felt like the right puzzle piece.

Later, I began experimenting with shaped forms. The moment I moved away from the scroll and started constructing silhouettes, everything clicked into place.

Since then, this project has felt incredibly exciting, as though I had finally found a language that belonged to me.