This thesis is a typological study of remembered floor plans, done with stitch-resist and natural dyes. My primary concern was architectural representation and its limitations as an intermediary between something imagined and something built. In these pieces I attempted to abstract the functional practice of drawing floor plans so that they might say something about a building beyond its layout. How do three dimensional spaces condense into memory, and how can architectural drawing be pushed to depict that transformation?

Each piece represents a building or place that played an important role in my life, many of which I haven't been to in years. The floor plans were distorted by this passage of time, and I often struggled to fit my memories of each room into a logical footprint. I sewed over the lines on fabric and pulled the threads, resulting in a tight ball of gathered fabric. Using mainly iron, pomegranate, logwood, and cutch, I dyed the fabric in an imperfect and unmeasured process that gave the dye plenty of agency in how it took to the fabric.