By its nature, photography arrests, suspends, and encapsulates a moment making it an ideal method to explore the emotionally charged shift between “past and present,” “life and death.” Through sewing, we endeavor to hold something in place…keep it together…stop it coming apart…

The series combines the archival capacity of photography with sewing to reframe the relationship with specific traces of life that are typically despised, ignored, or overlooked: the remains of animals. Pulling us into a direct, immediate connection with them, the work strives to make these creatures unavoidable. Gone is the soil where they laid, the asphalt beneath their bodies, the noise of our life that obscured their death. The images solidifying each one, whether poignant, tragic, beautiful, or grotesque, back within our presence and present.