BFA, Studio Art (Fibers)
Certificate in Cultures and Communities

nataliepachecovallejo@gmail.com
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Artist Statement

It has been difficult for me to remember my childhood and parts of my adulthood. As I recall events of my past, the memory isn’t complete or does not align with the recollection of others. My artwork titled “Missing Pieces: A Narration of One’s Struggle to Recall Memories” is a tufted floor piece of an incomplete puzzle with altered pieces made out of monk’s cloth and acrylic yarn. I chose to explore memories in this piece via tufting because in recollections the details of the event, such as the texture of the floor, the colors of the walls, or clothes others were wearing are often memorable, even when they aren’t significant to the event itself. I use tufting as a strategy to accumulate the seemingly small or irrelevant details to make an overall image of a memory cohere. With tufting, each line of yarn adds to the image to create the bigger picture, and even a single altered line changes it. Each time a memory is recalled it is altered. I chose to create an incomplete puzzle to parallel the process of trying to reconstruct a memory piece by piece, and how it might not be so easy. With each puzzle piece, I get closer to the memory, or complicate my recollection. The accumulation of altered pieces alludes to the number of times a memory has been recalled, and how it has been changed in the process