Remnants, lint rolled paper, 5”x5” 2020

My family is from the town of Kashan in Iran, made famous for their production of rugs. When finding this information out about my family I started questioning my lineage within rug making in relation to my textile work, maybe whatever I make could be a rug in its own right. 
I began to clean up the remnants of each day's sewing projects with lint rollers. Each paper roll gathered random remnants of what I have worked on but still connected to my day. The more I looked at these abstractions I started to think about them as my own rugs, rugs which speak to my fragmented understanding of my heritage while I try to identify with it from a different place.