Soft Archives

These linens have been soaked in tea and starch, then draped over gynecological instruments and left to dry. Once the tools are removed, what remains is the impression of their shape—subtle, hollowed, and lingering. The fabric holds memory through form rather than image, through what is absent as much as what is present.

Each piece reflects on the histories carried by these instruments and the bodies they have encountered. The choice of linens, ranging from domestic to medical and hospital settings, offers a quiet resistance to the cold sterility of clinical space. The stains, folds, and creases speak to the passage of time, the accumulation of touch, and the layered experience of being examined.

These works explore how tools of medicine can leave marks beyond their intended use. They consider the ways knowledge, power, and care intersect, and how memory might live in the textures of cloth. The impressions are not illustrations. They are records of contact. They offer no answers, only openings.