GIRLHOOD, REMEMBERED

2023, Found Bedsheets

This piece was created in collaboration with Andrea Drews, Sydney Mason, Lynsey Stratton, and Natalie Tracey.

Girlhood, Remembered was created with the hopes of helping people—and each other—reminisce on what it means to play and craft with no inhibitions. As kids, we’re often creating just for the fun of it, not worrying about what others think or say about the product of the fun. As I’ve gotten older, it has been harder and harder to create without criticizing. This project was an attempt to get back into the headspace we occupied as young girls, making blanket forts, having tea parties, watching movies, and using anything we could find to create whatever came to mind. We spent two nights before exam week sitting on the floor in Lynsey’s apartment, watching movies like Robots, Penelope, and The Parent Trap (the Lindsay Lohan version, of course). We used a bunch of bedsheets that were given to us, thrifted, or just found in the studio. Each girl used a different method of knotting, crocheting, or weaving to create a large, net-like structure that slowly began to fill the small apartment’s living room. Working off of each other’s sections was a fun way to create. There was no room to criticize what I had created because it was hard to tell where I started and another artist’s work stopped.

We present the piece draped over furniture in an effort to immerse the viewer in a space that reminds them of their childhood.