My mixed-media sewn constructions explore repair as both a physical act and a personal position. Eliminating what is damaged or inconvenient is often framed as efficient and virtuous, but my work insists on the slow, intimate work of mending. I understand repair as a way of staying in relationship with objects, people, and systems that are imperfect but worthy of effort and transformation. Rooted in a lineage of North Carolina seamstresses and informed by suturing techniques from my background in midwifery, I work with paper, thread, discarded cloth, and found materials that carry memories but are used or damaged. I intentionally leave raw edges, exposed seams, and misbehaving threads visible to reveal the guts of what is usually hidden: the underside, the labor, and the vulnerability inherent in repair. Fragments are assembled into grid structures, placing acts of mending within a collective framework and reflecting how identity is formed by what we try to hold together.