Repairing clothes to repair the family.
"Reparation is integral to the depressive position. It is grounded in love and respect for the separate other, and involves facing loss and damage and making efforts to repair and restore one's objects. Effective reparation involves a type and degree of guilt that is not so overwhelming as to induce despair, but can engender hope and concern. Reparation itself provides a way out of despair, by promoting virtuous cycles rather than vicious cycles in states of depression. It is a significant root in all creative activity and indeed a central part of development." --Melanie Klein
Sam’s Hesher Jeans
I started repairing through mending in earnest in 2013 with the ever advancing degenerative illness Sam was experiencing. It coincided with my need to make a statement about zero waste, soul (valuing old things) and tikkun olam (repairing the world). It was (and is) an act of stitching myself together, and a relational gesture of care, political through the personal.