Part of the Signature series. The Series began with Signature 01, created shortly after Fabric Persona. That first piece was a return to my younger self, to memory, to the feeling of sitting beside my grandmother as she sewed. I remember her hands moving steadily, pushing the needle through fabric, patching up my grey pants with bright, unmatched cloth. I didn’t care that they clashed; it was fixed, and that was enough. Fabric and thread were part of life, not something precious or decorative. Those moments stayed with me. I called it Signature because it felt like a mark only I could make, something rooted in the boy I was then. Each of, the nine works so far, continues this thread. With them, I’ve returned to the simplicity and freedom of childhood, especially time spent with my father on the farm. Collecting firewood, gathering it in my arms, not thinking, just doing. Playing, carrying, building. That instinctive process has come back in how I create now, letting my hands move, trusting the materials, not planning too much. I’ve embraced both the playfulness and the pain of those early years. These works are a way of honouring where I come from, not as something fixed in the past, but as something that still shapes how I move through the world, how I make, how I mark.
