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Morgan Willingham

May 5, 2026

8:54
Morgan Willingham created 10 works for this show, printing images of her daughter on old handkerchiefs found at antique stores and making them into collages.
9:05
I keep coming back to incorporating fiber in some way into my work, and I think I'm really drawn to it.
9:13
It's like with quilt making that while there may be this functional aspect to it, uh, within the domestic sphere especially, there's often, like, this incredible aspect of, of narrative, of storytelling that takes place in some of that work.
9:28
And so I'm, I'm highly inspired by that and, and thinking about ways in which I can appropriate that and how I can combine that with photography.
9:37
Growing up in the South, the way I viewed craft, especially fiber craft, was this idea of it being woman's work.
9:46
It was done in the home.
9:48
It wasn't valued.
11:44
Were you thinking about the relationship with you and your daughter as being something woven and having threads and that fiber was the perfect medium for this metaphor?

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