This piece maps twenty-five years of becoming. Using the colour wheel as a map of identity, each stitched diagonal line represents a year of my life, with the number of squares reflecting my age at that point in time. The colour wheel serves as a guide to my perceived proximity to my core self. Yellow marks moments of alignment and authenticity—I have always associated my truest self with yellow—while purple, its complementary opposite, represents the moments I felt furthest from myself. The colours between capture periods of uncertainty, growth and transition.
The stitched diagonals read like echoes: traces of past selves intertwined, travelling across time before culminating in the present. Every version of me remains within me. Though some voices have grown quieter with distance, they have never disappeared. They overlap, accumulate and ultimately shape the person I am today.
Identity, like stitching, is built slowly, one thread at a time. Cross-stitch, with its repetitive and deliberate process, mirrors the slow work of self-reflection that has gradually led me back to my core self. The medium itself becomes part of the concept: each stitch contributes to the whole, just as every past version of myself becomes inseparable from the present.
The work invites viewers to reflect on the echoes within themselves, not as versions of who they once were, but as voices that continue to shape who they are becoming. Every past self leaves a trace. Together, those echoes become who we are.
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT
Contemporary Textile Art, Data Visualisation, Pattern Design.