Marcy Petit
The story of the day I almost lost my handkerchief
Embroidery on handkerchiefs and installation, 2020
For this new piece, artist Marcy Petit embroidered on her old handkerchiefs the childhood memory of her own dependence on them, and of the day she nearly lost one of them.
A tragic and comic memory told with a needle and thread as a way to better remember it. The thread becomes the link to a painful yet ultimately insignificant childhood memory; a precious connection to those moments that have nonetheless moved and marked her forever.
Behind the fabric, the colored threads are dripping as if they had continued to grow during all these years. At some point, they intertwine with each other in order to tell us the same thing, the story of the day the artist had almost lost her handkerchief when she was a child.