About One Sided Conversations

Needlework has a vast & rich history in the realm of women’s work within the private sphere of the home. During the American Colonial 18th century, girls of the middle and upper classes were expected and required to create samplers to prepare them for the duty of sewing clothes for their family in the future. The sampler’s function served as both a visual decoration & a display of the principles of the girl’s skill, docility, & fortitude to potential suitors.

One Sided Conversations pays homage to the history of women’s work, through the medium of needlework embroidery. It acts as a private and public disclosure of poetic text left unspoken or ignored both to or from potential or past suitors. One Sided Conversations serves as a declaration of personal present day values such as freedom, patience, rhetorical inquiry & confrontation, acknowledgement of human fault, and stresses acceptance of the full spectrum of emotion in both the private and the public sphere.