materials: strips of sakabukuro bags dyed with persimmon, purchased on ebay from a seller in japan and delivered to albuquerque. ginkgo napping on them before i left to malaysia. bags handstitched together in langkawi during a residency. the scent of curry and the ocean. pills. a humid return from depersonalization. indigo cotton fabric––most likely an inner lining removed from a kimono––found at jalan jalan in kuala lumpur. raw linen gifted by narelle. a piece of wood pried from the nailed up window of an old adobe house on gabaldon. canine figures cut and assembled atop sakabukuro bags on the floor of a small relocated wooden kampong house. somewhere inside these cuts: new scars, s.a., a lover met at a drag show at moutou on hari merdeka. us running into a friend on the streets of chinatown who drank with us the last gift––a bottle of fine whiskey––that his deceased father had left him. us singing across the universe together and by morning the news of ginkgo’s death. a single bee sting. devastation. her likeness stitched in bed, in grief, with sashiko thread. tears. the decision to move to cairo.
2023. 60 x 44 inches.