Seams of Attachment examines how caregiving and dependency take material form. Using black ink and cut paper, I study how systems of care, both bodily and structural, are shaped through pressure, balance, relation, and interruption. Each work becomes an architecture of interiority where curved forms, seams, and voids hold tension between yielding and containment.

I make these forms in the intervals between caring for my two young children. The work grows out of the same sustained attention that holds a child and the ruptures that accompany daily interruption. Ink becomes a record of this rhythm. It pools, absorbs, resists, and dries in gradients that echo the shifting states of care. Cut edges create seams where structure and body meet. Each surface reveals what the hand allows and what it refuses.

The work traces the architectures formed in early caregiving, structures that shape relation long before they are named or recognized. These early forms of dependency often fade into private life, yet they organize how support, pressure, and balance move across bodies and systems.

The series is structured around three ongoing vocabularies. Form studies the quiet logics of attachment through soft interiors and held shapes. Seam investigates division as a site of relation and structure. Rupture addresses the points where pressure becomes visible. Together they propose an abstract grammar for understanding how care organizes itself across bodies and systems.

Rooted in lived experience and grounded in minimalist abstraction, the work extends a lineage from Ellsworth Kelly’s formal clarity to Mary Kelly’s feminist materialism. It treats dependency as a design principle. Each piece operates as a precise study in relation, constraint, and support. Seams of Attachment positions care as a fundamental architecture, shaping how we hold one another.