There was a great deal of thread leftover in this piece of buckram from my earliest experiments with embroidery. Slowly, the image of a scar that was to mark my childhood emerged from it.

• tarlatan, cotton thread 
• 10 x 60 cm 
• EXHIBITIONS: ‘Poética têxtil’, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brasil / Galerie Caroline Vachet, Lyon, França 

Photo: Kristine Thiemann