The Sutures

The Sutures – the fragile, bodily attempt at repair without erasure.

 

The Sutures is the final piece of the triptych What the Body Holds.

 

This work materializes a gesture of repair, as vulnerable as it is necessary.

 

On a white background, black threads hand-stitched across the canvas trace a series of irregular crosses, from the thinnest to the thickest, with some suspended like open wounds, others stretched like precarious scars.

 

Here, contrast lies not in color but in gesture: that of a hand mending without erasing, sustaining life in what has been fractured.

 

Each stitch becomes an attempt to speak without words, to gather scattered memories, to reclaim a wounded body.

 

The white space becomes silence, refuge, or void.

The black threads map the memory of trauma while outlining a fragile will to survive.