La Novia “The bride”


     El Cura “The priest”



La Iglesia “The church”




        El Diablo “The devil”



     Mujer en el mercado “Woman at the market”



Mujer en la fiesta “Woman at the party”






This series of hand beaded pieces were created along side my MA collection: ‘Cajabamba, Tierra eterna’. A project that focuses on a small town in the highlands of Peru, called Cajabamba, which was once home to my family. I aimed to construct a many sided, collaged portrait of this place by weaving in personal and collective narratives that explore traditions and aesthetics that emerged from  colonialism; and reflect on the concepts of memory, identity, dislocation and belonging. Never having been on Cajabamba, and only knowing it through stories and photographs, I attempted to construct this portrait through the eyes of a foreigner, summoning collective memory and drawing on shared events and familiar objects to re-imagine it through my own experience.

Almost two years later, I turned these pieces into hand crafted crossbody bags. Each bag is one of a kind and made of up-cycled fabrics.



Special thanks to Gabriele Paskauskaite for helping me so much with the beading of these pieces.