Chores ᐧ Collection 2 ᐧ Season 2

Chores  ᐧ  Collection 2, Season 1 (2024, No. 29-38) features ten new coats — each paired with a poem by Shaina Yang, and a patchwork lining by Lorraine Lum. Unique to this collection is the addition of 22 silver and blister pearl charms, made by Queens-based sculptor, Nicki Cherry. Each coat's embroidery incorporates one of Nicki's charms, which can be detached and worn as jewelry. Twelve additional charms stand alone, apart from the coats, waiting for their turn to become a necklace, an earring, or anything one's heart desires.

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Chores is an ongoing, collaborative body of work in Joy Mao’s textile art practice, featuring her hand-embroidered interventions on vintage garments. Each piece bears a unique pattern of embroidery originally inspired by the unintentional yet beautiful splatters left on an old painting smock — embracing the rhythm of repair and rebirth, and celebrating the stains and scars left as evidence of hard work and deep care.