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“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass,… . What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”

– George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Time – Memory – Transience

When does textile change from an inanimate object into something with sentimental value? Little details like a rip or tear in fabric, coffee stains, rows of unravelled stitches, faded colors due to the sun, a carefully placed brooch or a little note in the sidepocket reveils the soul of a garment. The details show that clothes have been worn at different times and different places, and that they have once belonged to a perticular person. Every detail has a story and can reinforce a memory.

A project about transience and processing a care-free and imaginative childhood. What follows is a rediscovery of the past.