The Atlas of Collective Joys and Sorrows  is a quilted archive of encounters, archival fragments, and shared narratives: a project that investigates textiles as both archives and storytelling tools.

Created during my residency at Landskrona Museum and Landskrona Foto in October 2025, where I sat daily in the museum café for fourteen days, quilting and inviting participants to join me. People were encouraged to bring textiles from their personal archives and share the stories attached to them.

Printed archival images from the Landskrona Foto Archives and textile fragments were mended together, allowing materials to meet, overlap, and activate narratives of love, loss, memory, and belonging. Here, textiles function as living archives, carrying as many stories as there are threads. The quilt, rather than presenting a fixed chronology or a resolved image, aims to records the texture of collective experience: joys and sorrows, the traces that are visible and those that remain unspoken.

The labour of hand stitching served as a way to physically engage with the stories and objects brought into the archive. It positions quilting as a form of mending: institutional archives with materials that lived in dusty shelves of private homes, images with stories, and bridging the distances between persons, personal histories and archives.

Alongside the physical quilt, I collected and anonymised the stories that were gifted to me with textiles, integrating them into the work and extending the textile archive into a narrative one. The project operates as both material and mnemonic: an atlas not of singular cartographies, but of layered, shared emotional geographies.

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2,30 x 1,55m hand sewn quilt
acquired by the Landskrona Museum, as part of the permanent collection.