My earliest memories of creation involve sitting at a sewing machine surrounded by my grandmother and aunts who were teaching me the art of meticulous measurement, intentional color choices, and precise stitching of fabric to create masterpieces that might be lying in someone’s chest for generations to come. For me this treasured craft held so many meaningful memories and quilting became the lens that I wanted to share these memories and experiences with others. This unlikely connection of something so familiar to something I’ve spent years studying at first presented me with a dilemma. Is it too simple? Too familiar? Craft vs fine art? And then I’m back at the core question I’ve heard so many times. Who gets to define art? What is art? And I find myself finally confidently answering the question through my own experience. It is a repetition of an intentional act using human creativity and imagination. For me, this is taking shape in the most personally familiar medium inspired by artists who have gone before me to create something new and unplanned. With full confidence, I have allowed myself to explore an unpredictable medium like quilting not through a traditional lens of pattern and measurement but through spontaneous decisions about directional line and its connection to stitch lengths as I butt up color and pattern. With the addition of different fabric treatments such as acrylic paint and lithography printmaking, I have incorporated the physical movement and action I found myself longing for in my process. All coming together as “place holders” for memories that are stitched and connected together to create a timeline of remembrance, from my past and present, to looking towards the future. So often as we get older and have new experiences, we tend to forget some from the past. While creating these works, memories from my past and present were stirred up. Weather from color, pattern, or the simple sound of the sewing machine, I wanted to create piece’s that could ignite these memories for myself with one look and create a new ones for others, unforced and unconstrained.