Cadeau, 2013, archival digital print, 25"x37.5"

Inspired by a West African tradition of giving a broken boulder as wedding gift. The piece contrasts the background of delicate, French-inspired wallpaper pattern that I have drawn in thread, against the foreground of a large broken boulder that has been suspended by an oversized rope. The ‘wallpaper’ pattern consists of thread that has been glue directly to the existing architecture. The juxtaposition of pattern and form, as well as lightness and weight become the driving factors in this piece.