Soft Logics: portraits, time, cloth

'Soft Logics: portraits, time, cloth' brings together the mediums of textiles and photography to uncover the quiet, protected selves of individuals. Through intimate interviews and portraits, each participant shares the story of a precious textile — an old garment, a handwoven cloth, a piece imbued with personal history. These objects, stitched with memory, hold the power to spark recollections with a single touch. The work explores the reciprocity between textiles and our inner lives, offering a form of portraiture that is both intimate and divergent. Each image invites audiences into a space where cloth becomes a vessel for identity, and where the texture of memory is palpable.

Subjects span a wide range of genders, sexual identities, and cultural backgrounds — Australian, Greek, American, Hungarian, Chinese, Indian. To preserve privacy and foreground universal emotion, participants are identified only by their initials and cultural heritage. Many of the stories shared are deeply personal, revealing how strands of memory and identity are woven together.

A textile is a membrane — a delicate threshold between the body and the world. Its closeness to the skin allows it to absorb and retain traces of lived experience. In Soft Logics, this sensory intimacy becomes a language: a way of telling stories through touch, texture, and the quiet persistence of cloth.