Things That Can Be Stitched Together

I extend my arms

Je tends les bras (I extend my arms), Claude Cahun, 1931 or 1932

Claude Cahun's Je tends les bras (I extend my arms), 1931 or 1932 by Me on 4/21/2022, Tristan B Willis, 2022

Things That Can Be Stitched Together

• two separate pieces of fabric - a seam

• a piece of fabric to itself - a dart, a hem

• a hymn - voices in harmony

• a video

  • accusations and responses

  • someone slides from their kitchen into someone else’s bedroom

  • breakdown of a breakdown

• portmanteaus

• arms in embrace

• arms closed

• fingers (one person’s)

• fingers (two people’s)

• families

• lives

• all manner of skin or people-bits, by someone trained ideally

  • occasionally by others when the need is great and someone trained is not available

• memories (one person’s)

• memories (multiple people’s)