Nadia Myre: THE SCAR PROJECT

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I saw this work in a post from the Sydney Biennale 2012 and thought it was a pretty amazing project. The very different ways that people had gone about stitching and representing their scars. And I thought about the conversations creating have the potential to bring about.

In 2005 Nadia Myre initiated the ongoing Scar Project, an open lab experience where people sew, with various fibres and threads, a canvas representation of a physical, emotional, psychological, or spiritual scar they may have, and write out the accompanying narrative. Over the last 6 years, in workshops with youth groups, cultural centres, seniors centres, prison circles, and schools, She have accumulated a collection of over 800 scars and stories which have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Canada and the US.