Walking home, leaving bits of me, on the way. My body is collective. Collective of memories, traces, wounds, and scars. We are the thousands of threads in between, connecting, and breathing.

軌跡: path is a journey through liminal world. Living across cultures, ways of living, and embodied memories, I have been searching for sense of home and belonging. I work with transformative process of papermaking, breaking down worn garments into pulp to create paper sheets and sculptural forms. Donated by family from Japan and friends in Meanjin, each of them carried memory of the wearer. The transformation of the material becomes a metaphor of my experience: constantly breaking and becoming, in relation with friends, family and place. As pressures on international body is heightening, I started feeling the glass windows building up between me and the community in Meanjin that I very much love. My works aspire to break the windows, and to create a place that invites everyone to reflect on embodied memories, and to collectively yarn for connections that makes who we are, together.

This is a body of work made from my family heirloom garments: a white linen 襦袢 (juban) that my mum used to wear, blue jeans passed down from my mum, a brown eco-dyed shirt that my friend gave me, and black cotton work pants.

Kanako Enokida (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Japan and currently based in Meanjin. Working across installation, papermaking, and performance, her practice brings together fibre and the body to create fragile yet intimate encounters for viewers. Her work is driven by an ongoing exploration of inter-cultural identity and the body as a site of liminality – a vessel of collective memory.