Keeping Together

"I always had the fear of being separated or abandoned. 

The sewing is my attempt to keep things together

and make things better."

Louise Bourgeois

Bourgeois Masks

life size, fabric covered heads
hiding emotions: 
pain, doubt, hunger and desire;
cubist masks:
 embroidered, decorated patchwork 
of domestic materials
sewn together 
- joining and reparation -
to heal traumas

Louise Bourgeois

Freud Museum London

Bourgeois Totems

 mysterious, amputated fabric female torsos 

- only womb, genitals and breasts -  

laying on their backs

ready for love

holding babies, family and weapons

frightening miraculous ancient voodoo dolls

sewn together from old worn cloth

as bandage on deep wounds

Louise Bourgeois

Freud Museum London