Costa (2022)

Woven Oiled Jute, Banana Fiber, Indigo-Dyed, Sewn on Canvas in Oak Frame
40.5” W x 25” H

Costa—meaning the cost—is a meditation on distance, longing, and the sea. Created using oiled jute and banana fiber dyed in a fruit-fed indigo vat, this piece draws its blue from the same plant that nourishes its structure. The banana, used as both material and glucose source for the dye vat, binds process and meaning into one loop—feeding, coloring, and grounding the work.

Woven and sewn onto canvas and framed in oak, Costa speaks to the ache of missing the ocean while living inland, far from the island that holds your history. It carries the emotional pull of shoreline memory—the cost of leaving, the desire to belong, and the tide of identity that rises even when landlocked.

This piece reaches toward the sea from a place of absence, stitching together displacement, ecology, and deep ancestral ties through fiber, dye, and form.