Our Collective Wisdom is an ongoing series of hand-stitched works that gather quiet, memorable phrases—lines we’ve heard, read, or carried with us—into fabric. Each piece centres on a single quote, stitched slowly using traditional techniques once used for domestic marking.
These words, often overlooked in daily life, are collected with care and sewn with still attention. They speak to something tender and enduring: a fragment of thought that stays with us, a moment of clarity or comfort.
By stitching them one by one, the series becomes a growing archive of lived wisdom—an act of preservation and a form of soft resistance against haste and forgetting.
The work draws on the intimacy of cloth, the slowness of the hand, and the power of language to quietly hold meaning in shared time.