The Soft Guns project began in 2013 as my graduation work, driven by a personal need to transform emotion into form. Using inherited fabrics and threads — some tracing back through generations — each piece reimagines an instrument of violence as something soft, tactile, and strangely tender.

 

Each weapon is recreated at full scale, entirely hand-sewn, then overtaken by embroidery, textile flowers, and small clay insects. Over time the pieces seem to be reclaimed by nature — as if the organic world is slowly absorbing what was made for destruction, shifting its meaning into something living.

 

The tension between the decorative and the violent, the familiar and the unsettling, is at the heart of the work. Soft Guns is ultimately about transformation: the possibility of holding fear in your hands until it becomes something else.