These Cookies are made not for the mouth or stomach but for the hand. They don’t resemble standard cookies because they serve a different purpose. From my hands to the viewer’s, they represent the care involved in making and sharing cookies. Typically this moment is a fleeting one; the cookie is given and then consumed. In this case, the exchange is given more time because said cookie lives on.
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Growing up, when I visited my grandmother, we would bake chocolate chip cookies in her kitchen. Late in life she started losing her memories due to Alzheimer’s. As her namesake it was particularly poignant when she forgot exactly how to bake our cookies. Eventually Grandma forgot everything and everyone. As the younger Mary I fear one day forgetting these memories of her. These stitches of white on white depict the kitchen she eventually forgot.
Stitches map the space, and the act of stitching is an act of remembering.