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Kenzie Zimmerman

Title

The Stitches that Build Me

Materials and Techniques

Whinnie the Pooh baby blanket, embroidery floss, paper, waxed linen (cover) Wine toned watercolor paper, cyanotype prints, typewritten word cutouts (pages)

My childhood is made up of countless moments that have shaped who I am today. When I look back, I can clearly see how far I have come—and how much farther I still have to go. 

This book weaves together my youth and my current self. Prints of formative moments are paired with my present-day poetry, creating a conversation between past and present. 

The cover is made from my soft white baby blanket, and the pages are toned with a deep, tannin rich wine—juxtaposing innocence and maturity. 

All of these elements merge into a single narrative—my story. A story that is simple, deeply personal, and far from finished.

The image shows cyanotype print of a little girl in monochrome blue. She smiles at the camera and has a flower in her hair. Some fine details, like individual hairs and teeth blend into blocks of white. The paper the picture is on has a tear through it. The distribution of the print color is faded and patchy, leaving some of the blue slightly green on the bottom and left side.

The image shows a closeup image of the book’s spine. There are three blocks of visible weaving on the spine showing the pink and blue stitching. On he boarders of the three blocks, there is white waxed linen that is creating a solid white boarder around the woven blocks. The very bottom edges and sides are covered in thin lace ruffles.

The image shows a hand holding a book open to a page in the middle. Around the pages you can see fabric ruffles. The pages themselves have a slight purple hue, and the visible page has a deep blue image with text underneath. The image shows three girls making faces into the camera. They crowd the camera, making the two girls in front look very large and the one in the back small. The background is too dark to see anything. The text is arranged so that it is aligned on the left side. It is made up of collaged type writer words.

The image shows a closed fabric book as it is partially constructed. You can see a weave of blue and pink embroidery floss on the spine with two stands hanging off the bottom edge of the book. The cover of the book is a soft puffy white fabric with small pastel flowers on it. The edges of the book have flowing lace ruffles, but they aren’t fully installed. Some of the lace on the left side is still unattached and dangles off the side and out of frame.

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