This collection speaks to the people who continue to show up, carry what life has placed before them, and keep becoming despite everything that stands at odds against them.
The stitch detail resembling the marks of everything that has turned us into who we are. Every stitch holding the struggle, endurance, experience, and wounds of earth, the strength that comes from having lived through it all.
And the thread still hangs because the work is not done. The healing is not done. The becoming is not done.
There is always something left to mend, something left to learn, and something left to grow from.
The Unsung Hero is an homage to showing up against all odds.
At times, when life throws stones at us, we forget who we are and sometimes even what we carry. We forget that there is intention in our existence—that we were hoped for, prayed for, and dreamt of.
Uliphupho is a reminder of that truth: that through the storms of life and whatever life throws at us, we may remember that we are a force divine, a miracle of age.