In this artwork Juliet explores the layered entangled and ever changing relationship of identity, memory, history, and female experience. She combines freehand machine embroidery, hand stitching, found fabrics, maps, and collected materials to create a textile-based mixed media work that reflects on the multitudes that exist within us and their tentacular nature.
Identity is considered as relational rather than self contained. The non-linear gathering of memory, inherited histories, bodies and places existing in contstant entanglement.
Threads extend, tangle, unravel, and reconnect, echoing the ways we are shaped through our connections and disconnections to others, to place, to our lived experience and to the natural world. Embedded within the work is the understanding that we humans are not separate from nature, but part of its cycles of growth, decay, adaptation, and regeneration.
Threads become acts of repair and rupture at once: stitching to mend, unstitching the barriers, and re-forming identity through cycles of breaking apart and becoming. Through this process-led approach, the artwork embodies paradox — strength in fragility; healing through decay; and how fragmentation brings growth and reconstruction. Juliet invites viewers to consider identity as something that is continually in motion.