Jennifer Coghill   
Textile Art

Piece by Piece is a window installation at Dialogue 38 on Dundas St W. for the 2026 DesignTO Festival. It features two textile-inspired works, Flow and Labyrinth, crafted from fragments of used paper coffee filters. Delicately patterned with various combinations of ink, indigo dye, tea, and cyanotype, they are sewn into lace-like hanging panels.

Drawing on traditional quilt patterns, hexagons in Flow, and the log cabin motif in Labyrinth, these artworks honor the history of domestic textile-making while reimagining it using repurposed waste materials. Though the filter paper mimics the softness, flow, and familiarity of cloth, it is an impractical, fragile choice. The work plays on the surprise of recognition, revealing that what first appears familiar is in fact an illusion.

At its heart, Piece by Piece is about transformation: of material, of meaning, and of perception.