Trousseau is a collection of objects I crafted by hand in light of my marriage and as part of TerMinAL mA. This body of work includes modular heirloom “furniture for moving” such as the collapsable cherrywood shelf and honeylocust “community altar” table with twelve hand printed and embroidered buckwheat and cork floor cushions. Trousseau features over a dozen reliquary boxes, carved with lace patterns from my wedding dress and with piecework from my mother’s antique quilt. (See Silverware Reliquaries and such as Unity / Separation for more details). It also includes my Wedding Quilt, an ongoing project.

trous·seau
clothes, household linen, furnishings, and other belongings 
collected by a bride 
for her marriage

trous·seau 
home away from home 
taken to the unknown 
to serve 
until death

trous·seau
embroideries and handworks
too soft to know
the pains of sorrows 
stitched slender
into bones

trous·seau
all that is left of me
all that will become of me
after this life-giving body
falls to pieces

(trous·seau
a piece
of mother)