Care is often experienced through continuity through the gestures, routines and forms of attention that are repeated over time. It does not always announce itself; it can exist within the familiar acts that quietly structure everyday life and create a sense of presence and reassurance.

The work is formed from accumulated used tea bags, each carrying the stains, folds and traces of the ritual through which it has already passed. Red cross-stitch is worked across this surface by hand, developing the work through a sustained process of repetition. The material and the making therefore hold different moments of the same everyday rhythm: the tea bag records an act that has already taken place, while the stitch records the artist’s repeated return to the work.

The work proposes that one of the deepest experiences of care and security can be found in the presence of ritual: in the quiet knowledge that familiar gestures will continue, that there will be another morning, another moment of pause, another return to what is known.

For the artist, care is therefore not defined by an exceptional act, but by continuity, by the repeated presence of small rituals through which safety, connection and a sense of being cared for are gradually experienced and remembered.

The work considers care as something accumulated rather than declared. It is found in repetition, attention and presence; in the small gestures that, over time, become part of what is remembered and carried forward.