These images are from a series of 43 hand-sewn photographs taken along the entire circumference of the former Berlin Wall. The images were taken in the city center as well as the outskirts of city where I followed the former path of the wall through suburbs and forests.
Sections of the photographs have been obscured by cross-stitch embroidery sewn directly into the photograph. The embroidery is made to resemble pixels and borrows the visual language of digital imaging in an analog, tactile process. In many images, the embroidered sections represent the exact scale and location of the former Wall offering a pixelated view of what lies behind. In this way, the embroidery appears as a translucent trace or ghost in the landscape of something that no longer exists but is a weight on history and memory.
