Valley Temple Sisterhood

Continuity is a privilege

Coffee-washed canvas with ink, lace, buttons, embroidery floss, bedsheets, and fabric scraps

Continuity is a line between love, loss, grief, and memory.

This piece represents the web of connections (lace) that holds us together and creates a continuity in our families and our community. Buttons (from the button jar) are used to attach (connect) disparate pieces and embellish the present. They are stitched to recipes our mothers made for us, and that we make for our children and grandchildren. These pieces of traditional women’s work and women’s knowledge tie us to each other and the generations. None of the objects are perfect, rather they are stained and flawed as we all are flawed. But pieced together, the work is changed and strengthened as we are.