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MOMENTS 2 MOMENTOUS

Kris Campbell is a conceptual artist driven by questions of the soul—its presence, its limits, and the barriers that hold or hide it. Using cross-stitch embroidery as both metaphor and medium, she explores what separates and connects us.

Her large-scale, diaphanous tapestries treat space as substance. Moments made momentous. Sole soul to sole soul.

My body is strange. It contains me: my mind, my feelings, my heart. It pees, sweats, cries, bleeds. It aches-knees, teeth, head, and deeper places too: heart, gut, emotions, memory. My body is physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. It remembers. Yours does too. We share that. And yet, we remain separate. What divides us? What connects us?

Screens separate us. They keep bugs out and pets in. When I die, my body will remain on one side of the window screen, and my soul will pass through. How is the soul in the body, and of the body?

Contemporary screens hold light, convey images, and flatten experience. They are the new ether between us. The luminiferous ether once offered an answer. It is a substance that light travels through, similar to how a wave travels through water. It was later disproven. And yet, I believe in it. I believe that its the realm of souls.

To me, the ether exists within the soul’s dimension, the unseen medium through which we feel and connect.

I stitch to reach that ether. I stitch to connect with something larger than myself, larger than us.