MORENI [2011] 

10 cm x 140 cm x 95 cm | 3” x 56” x 37”

Screen printing with textile pigments, dyeing with reactive and natural dyes, hand embroidery with viscose thread, crochet with cotton thread, painting with acrylic paints on found papers, rayon challis, silk gauze, and Arches paper.

Created as a floor installation, Moreni resembles a map and references the geology of a land. It is comprised of stacks of fabric and embroidered hand-made envelopes and alludes to my personal attachment to the place I was born and its historic reality. In this sense, the connection this place has with the extraction of petroleum [i.e., in 1861 Moreni was the third place in the world where petroleum was extracted] is contrasting my memory of the place. To reflect this, flat envelopes on which I stitched the map of Moreni and that have an embossed seal are contrasting with the textured and rich surfaces of the stacked fabrics.