WAR SHROUDS

War Shrouds is an ongoing textile series that transforms crocheted baby blankets into infant-sized body bags. These blankets, often handmade by mothers, grandmothers, and other caregivers, reclaim a feminized craft as a form of political language. Drawing from Virginia Woolf’s feminist claim that war has a gender, the project examines how patriarchal systems produce violence while erasing the labor and suffering of those who survive it.
 

While public memory centers soldiers and state power, War Shrouds brings attention to the private costs of violence: displacement, grief, and the interruption of domestic life. These impacts fall disproportionately on women and are rarely acknowledged. The work confronts viewers with a scale of loss that is often excluded from official narratives.
 

Presented as a series, the repetition becomes a quiet ritual. These are not monuments. They are records. War Shrouds resists the impulse to sanitize or resolve. It holds space for grief that continues without ceremony or closure. This is not simply an artwork. It is a feminist intervention into how war is remembered, whose stories are preserved, and which lives are allowed to matter.