Enduring Threads (2024-2025)
As artist-in-residence at the Roundhouse Community Centre, I developed Enduring Threads in response to the public art and dialogue series Poetics of Possibility. The youth program invited participants ages 13–18 to explore how textiles can express identity, resistance, and imagination.
Season 1 (Feb–May 2024) culminated in a group exhibition at the Roundhouse.
Season 2 (Nov 2024–May 2025) expanded on this foundation, introducing techniques from shibori to crochet, and concluded with a weeklong exhibition during BC Youth Week 2025.
Across both seasons, participants engaged in hands-on workshops that wove together conversation, art history, technique, and material play.
Sessions were guided by weekly prompts—such as “What does endurance mean to you?” and “What change do you hope to see in the world around you?”
Through colour, texture, and pattern, participants told stories of who they are and where they come from, embedding symbols, memories, and feelings into their pieces.
Exhibition Overview
Enduring Threads, Binding Memories, and Sound Reflections was on view at the Roundhouse Community Centre from May 1–7, 2025, during BC Youth Week. The exhibition highlighted the voices of young artists from three community centres through textile installations, bookmaking, and soundscapes.
Threads and Reflection
The works in Enduring Threads were developed over a six-week process by six participants who experimented with textile techniques and explored both historical and contemporary fibre art practices—including projects such as the Crochet Coral Reef and Olek’s Injustice. Though each piece is deeply individual, a shared thread wove through the exhibition: expressions of identity, heritage, quiet rebellion, and a relationship to nature—as both a response to climate change and a metaphor for freedom. Some works were left intentionally unfinished, offering a glimpse of what’s still to come.
Where am I, 2025
Mixed fabric, yarn, string, garbage bags, thread
Hyojung Jenny Kim
Eyes of Wisdom, 2025
Indigo dyed cotton, yarn, cord, pins, thread
Julia Almeida
Pieces of Me, 2025
Indigo and weld dyed cotton, scrap fabric, yarn, cord, rock, personal objects, thread
Léonie Roberts
Weathered Memorial, 2025
Indigo dyed cotton, scrap fabric, yarn, thread
Susanna Mattman
Trace Yourself Back, 2025
Cotton fabric, scrap fabric, thread
Anisabonu Abduhamed Qizi
Beautiful Nature, 2025
Scrap fabric, thread
Giulia Petrone
Special thanks to DB Boyko for the invitation to lead this project; Jannet Cincoleon for working with the centre’s youth; Faune Ybarra for documenting the process; and Kimberly Ho for capturing the exhibition.