36 x 48”
Manual machine knit, Loro Piana cashmeres
Kashmir was once whole. Then it was broken. Now it is being pieced back together—though perhaps it never can be.
The work begins with a stock image of the Kashmir Valley, translated into knit through punch cards. The yarn—pashm from Leh, spun and branded in Italy—carries its own layered geographies. Then comes erasure. Washed wool collapses, losing form and integrity. The fabric disfigures. Reconstruction follows. Darning stitches—some hidden, some exposed—bind the fragments into uneasy unity.