

Care as animating creative connections to lineage III
Earlier this year a friend gifted me a substantial amount of unwanted textiles that includes bed linen, remnants and sewing offcuts that...
Monika
Aug 3, 20231 min read
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Care as animating creative connections to lineage II
Continuing on my recent process of collaging textiles evolved into an exploration of an aesthetics of care encompassing both my lineage...
Monika
Jul 20, 20232 min read
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Cross-institutional HDR studio critique
On the last Friday of June, I have presented my work to the HDR cohort as part of the monthly group critique session. I have used the...
Monika
Jul 6, 20231 min read
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Care as animating creative connections to lineage
In my studio, amongst various accumulated textiles that I intend to experiment with, there is a small pile of textiles that have a...
Monika
Jun 22, 20232 min read
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Soft sculpture experiment + 'Remediations' progress
Soft sculpture Having researched the history of fibre-based art and its advent into the art world in the 1960s – 70s, I have reflected on...
Monika
Jun 8, 20232 min read
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Stitching as recording time - Progress
I have documented my progress of application of cross-stitches onto a wearable shirt. The amount of time spent in this process is...
Monika
May 25, 20231 min read
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Mending
Embodied knowledge of simple darning I have recently recalled the process of mending used by my paternal grandmother to darn holes on...
Monika
May 11, 20231 min read
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Shadow Stitch II
The wedding dress Continuing to experiment with the shadow stitch on translucent fabric that I have at hand rekindled my earlier idea to...
Monika
Apr 27, 20231 min read
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Shadow stitch
While reading highly inspiring Poetic Cloth (2019) by Hannah Lamb, within a chapter that explores trace and transparency, I came across...
Monika
Apr 13, 20231 min read
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Rescue mission Part 2 + 'Remediation' progress
I decided to experiment with some of the items left from the bag of unsellable clothes. I started by folding a small green top before...
Monika
Mar 29, 20231 min read
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Rescue mission - Clothes canopy experiment
In my project I have mainly been reclaiming and reusing discarded clothes that have either belonged to me or have been sourced from my...
Monika
Mar 15, 20232 min read
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Collaged offcuts progress
I have continued adding repetitive cross stitches across various sections of the work to secure the offcuts in place and to create...
Monika
Mar 1, 20231 min read
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Stitching as recording time
I decided to start an exercise in stitching on a garment without folding it so it can still be wearable. For this occasion, I chose to...
Monika
Feb 15, 20231 min read
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Experimental patchwork WIP
Combining of the two experimental patchwork pieces I started earlier and adding some more scraps and cut-up pieces of clothes
Monika
Feb 1, 20231 min read
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Heirloom II WIP
This work continues to contemplate and reconnect with my matrilineal history by engaging with an evolving archive consisting of evocative...
Monika
Jan 18, 20231 min read
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Heirloom WIP
This work explores new ways to use textiles to attend to my familial relationships and to process emotions associated with the fragmented...
Monika
Jan 4, 20231 min read
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Eco Dyeing Workshop Part II
'Healing Ourselves Healing Country' Workshop was facilitated by Boomalli artist Debra Beale (https://www.boomalli.com.au/debra-beale/)...
Monika
Dec 21, 20221 min read
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Eco Dyeing Workshop
'Healing Ourselves Healing Country' Workshop was facilitated by Boomalli artist Debra Beale (https://www.boomalli.com.au/debra-beale/)...
Monika
Dec 11, 20221 min read
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'Threads That Connect Us' Residency
This post is a visual reflection on the 'Threads That Connect Us' Residency I took part in and helped facilitating at the Embroiderers'...
Monika
Nov 27, 20221 min read
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Revisiting a project / Heirloom III
I have decided to recycle an earlier work that is made of a long linen-based scarf that I have dyed using a batch of rusty keyrings. In...
Monika
Nov 2, 20221 min read
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