meaning to stitch 16a - the initials

the initials

stitching the initials of all the slaves listed as owned by my family (that i could find) is my way of honouring and recording their lives - i know this is only some of the people who worked under the sytem of slavery and later indentured labour, so i hope that these represent all of them in some small way

i stitched from the 'wrong' side of the fabric, so that the initials appear like abstract marks on the side which shows - my intention was that this should suggest their unknown-ness - many of them were given names by their owners so that these initials deny them their original identity