41 x 41 x 4cm
 
Cotton, embroidery thread and transfer paper in a timber frame
 
Absent Threads considers the fragile weave between memory and the social fabric that holds us. What emerges is neither image nor void, but a residue of relation — a suggestion that memory, like cloth, is constructed less from clarity than from the frayed connections that persist.
The work reflects on how fragments, dislocated and unresolved, can still be bound together through the act of stitching. In this way, it mirrors the lived experience of Aphantasia, where images are never fully formed, yet remain present as traces that continue to shape perception. The fabric here becomes a metaphor for connection itself — provisional, imperfect, but enduring in its insistence to hold.