Year: 2025-2026
Dimensions: 22’ x 36’ (Dimensions Variable)
Medium/ Technique: Thread/ Machine Embroidery, Nuno Felting
Location: Museum London, London, ON.
Double Shadow is an expansive, site-specific textile installation that is mounted to the wall with pins.
Drawn from my Black and White Studies series, the work brings together more than 500 stitched elements that transform the Atrium wall into a field of airy, lace-like forms. Each piece hovers just off the wall’s surface, animated by shifting light and shadow.
I create many of these works by free motion embroidering, appliquéing and hand stitching onto a special water-soluble fabric. Once the stitching is complete, the support is washed away, leaving behind a self-supporting thread drawing held together through layered and interwoven connections alone. What remains is only thread, fragile in appearance yet surprisingly resilient in form.
Throughout the installation, intricate botanical motifs mingle with bold geometric shapes and dazzling patterns, gathering onto textured surfaces. Seen from a distance, the elements form striking graphic compositions; up close, they unfold into dense clusters of fine detail and careful handwork. Double Shadow invites visitors to slow down and look closely, tracing how thread, space and light interact. As individual elements accumulate and connect, the work offers a quiet reflection on material possibility and shared structures, suggesting how forms, like living organisms, find strength together.
I would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario.
This work has been included in the following exhibitions:
Exhibition: Double Shadow at Museum London
