Hello! I'm Outgoing.I help make life more interesting.
Hello! I'm Outgoing.I help make life more interesting.
This event is in the past.It took place on May 9, 2026 at Gallery Wendi Norris.


Ambreen Butt's textile works transform social media footage of violence into meditative, slow-looking art. Dense embroidery and collage demand your attention, casting maternal figures as active witnesses to grief and displacement rather than passive symbols of loss.
Contemporary textile art
Dense mixed media
Socially engaged
Slow looking required
Tips
🧵"witnessing without the power to act describes the circumstance we're all victims of as citizens of the Internet" (Max Blue)
🌸look for walking irises from the artist's own garden woven throughout
🧣keffiyeh patterns appear in every piece as emblems of memory
I Bear Witness
North Beach


Ambreen Butt's textile works transform social media footage of violence into meditative, slow-looking art. Dense embroidery and collage demand your attention, casting maternal figures as active witnesses to grief and displacement rather than passive symbols of loss.
Contemporary textile art
Dense mixed media
Socially engaged
Slow looking required
Tips
🧵"witnessing without the power to act describes the circumstance we're all victims of as citizens of the Internet" (Max Blue)
🌸look for walking irises from the artist's own garden woven throughout
🧣keffiyeh patterns appear in every piece as emblems of memory
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