tricky to illustrate? Hmmmm... True, I haven’t been able to make them reality (yet? maybe ever?) but these words have given rise to a lot of ideas in my head, but which have come out in a jumble of non-eloquence... still maybe they could be a starting point for something... I hope it’s ok that I share them.

I picture a worn stuffed animal (possibly a grandmother’s as seen in old photos) taken apart and used to stuff a new one and given to a baby that has the same eyes (or nose) as the one in the picture, and the new toy slowly growing threadbare, until you can see the bits of the first toy showing through what is now threadbare and worn – it makes me think about DNA and these building blocks that get unzipped and reused and recycled and you can see other people from the past at the edges sometimes in familiar expressions or actions... or instead of a stuffed animal it could be the fabric from a wedding dress used as the lining of a new coat, or a sweater unraveled and used to stitch up the pieces of a new one... I also think of book binding and sewing pages into a new spine and even, in the more abstract a human figure being spun into thread that then fills up another figure in swirls inside their outline...

Agreed! I think if someone wanted to tinify this, that would be a really effective line to use.

I'm kind of thinking "I sewed you into the seams of me" could really be a tiny story in and of itself.

This is so beautiful! I found it via ChristineNaderer's reRECs this week. I especially love the "i sewed you into the seams of me" line. Great work!

thanks ladies & gents! i think this one would be tricky to illustrate, though i was thinking a specific colour could be used to represent the friend/other person.

This is awesome.

love, love, love have to heart it. xo

oh, wow. this evokes so many images in my head and it my heart. I love it!