Voces

Beginning with the first documented victims in 1993, the artist and her companions have embroidered the names of individual women onto white blouses. The pink thread with which they sew references the pink crosses erected throughout Ciudad Juarez to commemorate the dead. As the murders continue, embroidered shirts amass upon the floor. As the needle pierces each shirt, the suffering of each woman is lamented and recorded in thread. Though their lives and bodies have been so carelessly discarded, these women are not forgotten. The time taken to hand-stitch one name is a time taken to remember one person; it is to lovingly declare, “No, you are not forgotten. I remember you. I value you.”