Therapy Rugs

Therapy rugs is a body of tactile pieces, made collaboratively with people as a way to connect and process together. I put up an open invitation through my instagram account, calling people who simply need a listening ear, inviting them for what i called “dish out sessions” in which we talk, identify a main feeling that they want to work through, then through a number of prompts I invite them to collaborate on a sketch with me online. I then make rugs based on shapes and patterns extracted from these sketches. The purpose of this project is the transformative nature of those emotions, making them into something tangible and tactile. But the real value and outcome is that space that allows for those people to express and reflect and for me to connect and make. That in essence is the true value of art for me.