Come Home

Come Home is a poem crafted in 2020 during my freshman year of college at Columbia College Chicago. It explores themes of identity, flight or fight, and avoidance. During my Junior year at the Savannah College of Art and Design, I revisited the project - I turned it into a textile book and altered the poem to show that emotions are fleeting and the future is never promised. My Senior year, I polished it and added heavy embroidery and beading to symbolize the passage of time and the layers of experience that shape us into who we are. The act of embroidering becomes a metaphor for the process of growth and transformation, as we stitch together the fragments of our past to create a cohesive narrative of our present.

This project is ever-evolving and I plan to create a 2025 version.