Sew Her Name
In 2020, responding to the brutal slaying of Breonna Taylor (predating George Floyd's by two months), I began mending this falling-apart-at-seams dress by sewing names of Black women murdered by cops,
and hate-slaughtered trans women along with their own words. Read more about it here in the label notes from the Conserving Active Matter exhibition at BGC Gallery: this is the catalog shot by Bruce M White.
Techniques and Materials
Tired linen dress
Embroidery floss
Sadness, despair, fury
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