Online Foundation Art & Design
Exhibition of student artworkYear 1 - OFCAD show / Foundation Certificate course
Year 2 - OFDAD show / Foundation Diploma course
Anne Kermode
11” × 17”.
Title: A Stitch in Time
The phrase “Love the skin you’re in” became a recurring motif, recalling an advertisement for a face cream used by my mother. This memory evoked a sensory connection to childhood and led me to reflect on the fragility of skin as both a physical and emotional boundary. I began to consider the layers of skin as metaphors for female familial relationships—those we inherit, share, and sometimes damage. Central to this enquiry was the question of whether such damage can be repaired and emotional wounds healed.
Inspired by Eva Camacho’s practice, I began working with sewing. Stitching valleys and folds into sinuous mulberry paper became a way of enacting delicate repair. I used gold thread in reference to the Japanese practice of kintsugi, where broken objects are repaired with gold to acknowledge damage as part of their history. Here, the gold thread suggests that emotional wounds can hold value. Sewing also carries personal significance: my grandmother was a seamstress, and my mother taught me to sew, deepening the meaning of the process.
