Stitched Through the Seven Sisters

**Stitched Through the Seven Sisters** is a location-specific series about honoring an almost-daily practice of communing with nature as I stitch myself through my local trail system. Matte hot press photographic prints are layered with matte gouache that nods to mapping and ink and colored pencil stitching that references both woven comfort and the idea that my wandering counters life's unraveling and knits me back together.

**Kerry St. Laurent** is a visual artist from Western Massachusetts who lingers in the spaces between realism and abstraction, chaos and meticulous detail.  Life-curious and death-casual, her video and 2D mixed-media work references nature, mapping, microbiology, gothic architecture and memory, deconstructing the subjective lens and presenting impermanence as the grand unifier. She has recently focused on response work and collaboration with artists of different mediums, specifically writers and musicians. Her work has been exhibited locally and nationally and she has served as Artist-in-Residence at Hot Springs and Isle Royale National Parks. She teaches a variety of visual arts courses at Western New England University.

**Website:** https://www.kerrystlaurent.com/

**Instagram:** https://www.instagram.com/masterkoda/

**YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/@KerryStLaurent

**Email:** kerry@kerrystlaurent.com