Mixed media (photography, digital art, and collage; archival pigment print on premium deckled fine art paper professionally mounted and framed with hanging wire system)

Nourished Threads reimagines an intimate moment of childhood through digital pattern-making. The portrait centers on a simple act of self-feeding—a universal gesture of growing autonomy. The surrounding pattern, extracted and transformed from the original photograph's background, evokes both traditional textile designs and contemporary glitch aesthetics. By processing and repeating elements from the source image itself, the work suggests how our remembrances of childhood moments become abstracted and stylized over time. This digital weaving transforms the snapshot into a meditation on how cultural identity and heritage are passed down through daily rituals of nourishment. Through this marriage of candid portraiture and computational pattern-making, the piece preserves and transforms intimate memories into a portrait where sustenance flows through both physical and metaphorical threads.