Misshaping the Pattern

It begins with a simple gesture: to embroider the image of a woman who has marked one’s life. But the gesture does not remain individual. It enters a shared surface, where images, words, and fragments begin to coexist without hierarchy.

The floral curtain is a structure already coded, decorative, repetitive, domestic. The intervention does not erase that pattern. It misaligns it. Each portrait interrupts the surface. Each stitch displaces what was meant to remain invisible.

What emerges is not a unified image, but a field of relations. Stories that do not fully translate. Memories that remain partial. Names that circulate without being fixed. The work produces the conditions for their appearance. Participation alters the work materially. The surface expands, thickens, becomes more difficult to read as a single image. What accumulates is not only memory, but tension—between repetition and difference, between decoration and inscription. Misshaping the Pattern does not restore a lost narrative. It exposes how these narratives have been structured, and how they can be reconfigured from within.