Places I Have Lived

The Trailer Park

Ages 3 to 5

The Niagara Apartment

Age: 4 and 5 (parents brief separation)

B Street

Ages 6 to 9

I am currently working on a visual "database" of all of the homes I had lived in as a child. The series is focused on the floor plans of the the houses I inhabited up until age eighteen, when I moved to college. Each floor plan is stitched with brightly colored craft felt and white thread. Although the floor plans may not be throughly accurate, they reflect my memory of the layout of each home. I used colorful craft felt to enhance a child-like feeling for each piece.

Grandma Paquin

Magical Childhood Memories

Along with the "My Imagination Poopsies" series, I have been working on some wall panels that have small snippet stories from my childhood. These little stories come from memories I have that, at the time I was little, seemed magical or really fantastical. The panels are made of craft felt, with hand cut letters that are then hand stitched unto a larger piece of craft felt. The process of stitching these stories unto the cloth has let me relive them in an intimate way, keeping them somewhat sacred in that they still have that sense of magic.