Unrequited Love

This photo book with some poetic words intends to articulate the feeling of my one-way attachment and loss to a person.

2-3. The colour of the fabrics and threads were not neutral to illustrate with a sombre colour scheme.

The back of my quilted images. These imperfect paths with stitches and knots mirror the complexity of unrequited love emotion.

Study of stitching. (Date: 2019.08.08)

Study of dyeing. (Date: 2019.07.12)

Natural-dye workshop at the Ditchling Museum of Art & Craft. (Date: 2019.05.23)

- Lyric: Please don't say a word Cuz they all have been said now Like a journey coming to an end You say Let it run like the river Wild and without a care Just like the days We were young and fumbling Everything fades away Let it go by with a flow Really wish I could stay But you know me All the moments we shared Are not going anywhere Never quite understood it When you told me Just close your eyes And I be right by your side Cuz memories don't say goodbye

Visual references for my making.

‘Time—time lived, time forgotten, time shared. What does time inflict—dust and disintegration? My reminiscences help me live in the present, and I want them to survive. I am a prisoner of my emotions. You have to tell your story and you have to forget your story. You forget and forgive. It liberates you.’ —Louise Bourgeois (Celant, 2010, pp.260)

Experimental work.

Detail of experimental work.

(source: www.seamwork.com)

(source: www.seamwork.com)

Mingwei Lee-The Mending Project Retrospect to a relation art exhibition I have been in Taiwan in 2015, it reminds me that Mingwei Lee’s The Mending Project somehow influence the project of mine. He points out the quilty of threads and fabrics can be not only become the interpretation but the connection between people.

(Source: alicekettle.co.uk)

Caroline Bartlett could be described as a “historian in stitch.” Her passion for exploring the historical, social and cultural associations...