Painful Suspense addresses issues around domestic violence and violence against women, inspired by the Counting Dead Women Project by Karen Ingala Smith, I have created memorial’s stitched in aprons in remembrance of all the women murdered over the past 5 years. Each apron represents one year, with all the names of the murdered women handstitched. Nailed to their frames, the aprons are all kept on tenterhooks, an ancient process of keeping fabric taut which also describes the emotion of painful suspense which would have been experencied by each woman in their own homes.
