ENCODING [QUIET MEMORIES] [2010] 

3.5 m x 15 m x 9 m | 12’ x 50’ x 30’

Screen printing with textile pigments, dyeing with reactive and natural dyes, hand embroidery with viscose thread, knitting with mohair yarn, crocheting with monofilament and copper wire, appliqué, cutting, painting, drawing, machine stitching on silk organza, silk gauze, pima cotton, cotton canvas, rayon challis, library punched cards, books spines, circuit boards, lace, found papers.

I go along the tramway. I am the eternal traveler throughout my own past. Each time the rails are going somewhere else. I am now in Iasi: my grandparents' city, the city where my school was, the city of the evergreen parks. Faraway stories of some forgotten days are quietly brought into the present by seemingly "aged" pieces, made of fabric and paper. Mapping and invented coded imagery are an inherent part of my personal language. An amalgam of found objects like: old library punched cards, discarded book spines and circuit boards, help me translate vestiges of the experiences that persist across time, and together tell the story of who I am. I am immersed, as in a dream, in recent and distant memories that lead me to the tramway again. I walk the way back and I return in the present.