Lights and Perfections
Lights and Perfections emerges from and expands upon the images, objects, and words that Jewish communities have historically designated as protective and powerful, and the stories invoked therein. How do the symbols and the amulets that house such stories hold and move a people’s identity, and what histories might they reveal here and now? How do they envelop a community’s fears, its resources, its wider world?
Untitled Babushka 1 (2022–2023). Hand-embroidered cotton. 24” x 40”.
Untitled Babushka 1 (2022–2023). Hand-embroidered cotton. 24” x 40”.
Untitled Babushka 1 (2022–2023). Hand-embroidered cotton. 24” x 40”.
as Beautiful as You (2023–ongoing). Onionskin-, hibiscus-, and gorse-dyed cotton and linen-cotton. 105" x 43".
Beneath that, the paving stones (rose hip amulet) (2022). Hand-embroidered and -sewn cotton, dried rose hip berries. 4” x 4”.
Untitled Babushka 3 (detail) (2023). Hand-quilted, embroidered, and applique’d cotton. 40” x 40”.
Untitled Babushka 3 (detail) (2023). Hand-quilted, embroidered, and applique’d cotton. 40” x 40”.
Photo: Matavai Taulangau.
Untitled (2021). Hand-embroidered cotton. 11.5" x 10.5". 
Untitled (2021). Hand-embroidered cotton. 15" x 18".
Untitled Babushka 2 (2022–2023). Hand-woven wool and cotton, found objects. 24” x 40”.
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