bitterSWEET
Breath in, breath out. How do we contextualize grief? What does care for the self look like when all you want is what you can’t have - when the absence of another is all that is weighing on you. Earlier this year, I lost my maternal grandmother. I don’t go most days without thinking about her. It was a loss that was hard to process regardless, but especially at the time, so of course, here I am making work about it. Crafting is often, if not mostly, processing for me.
Crochet is present as a soft medium to convey hard feelings, but you can expect to see cyanotypes built up of depths of this past summer and fall that proved to challenge my body, my sense of resiliency, and outlook on life as well as a touch of my time in the Midwest that helped me get through. I believe in getting through, not out.
2026
Nikki at the Mehle
Photos curtesy of Hannah Patterson
