Lines of Labor, Threads of Hope grew out of listening to the stories of Seabrook Farms, where African American, Estonian, and Japanese families worked the same land and built lives side by side. When their children spoke about growing up there, what struck me most was their shared childhood—how they played and learned together, unaware of the differences that shaped their parents’ daily lives. That sense of unity and resilience became the heart of this piece.
Every line in this digital drawing carries a story. Together, those lines form the image of a woman sewing, a
metaphor for the way community and history are stitched together. Within her tapestry are scenes of harvest and play, and one child carries the American flag forward. The work speaks to how many hands, lives, and hopes come together to create something whole, like threads forming an image, or families forming a legacy.
