Kali Canedo

Cotton embroidery and eco-print on raw silk, wood.

I was close with my grandmother—in constant conversation. Many years apart, we each wrote a poem about the other. Yet, it seems, these two poetry pieces were speaking to each other across time and space.  “Every Time” originally lived as a poem my grandmother wrote about me when I was 2 years old. I immortalized these words in cotton embroidery on eco-printed silk panels, to live now as the piece pictured above. However, this artwork is not meant to live alone, not meant to speak into a vacuum. “Every Time” is meant to be installed opposite and in conversation with her kin, “Forgive Me”—a twin piece that holds the words of a poem that I wrote about my grandmother many years later. Like us, these works of art and writing were always meant to be together. A constant conversation.