Exhibit | Love You More

If any exhibit could be called a labor of love, it’s this one - my hands working over the ghost of hers, feeling her memory with every weave and knot.

Love You More was my first solo exhibit at Gallery 114. The weavings I created were inspired by - and created from - clothes that my grandmother knitted for me when I was a child. The exhibit title comes from a phrase that my grandmother, Mommy Ferne, always said to us: I love you more.

Not more than you loved her, or more than someone else loved you, but just - more. More than she ever thought possible, more and more each day. Mommy Ferne passed in 2023, and I've created the art for this exhibit in her honor and in her memory.

To create these tapestries, I unpicked the knitted clothes she had made, and used the yarn to create small tapestries. For most of the sweaters I made a single tapestry, but the granny quilt sweater became several distinct weavings, and I loved creating them out of the color combinations she chose.

Making pieces for this exhibit was also an exploration into the technique of simple tabby weaving with thin yarn - a departure from my typical style of chunky, highly-textured weaving techniques.