Lara Moffat

Website: laramoffat.com
Email: laramoffat@gmail.com
Instagram: @laramoffat

Sew Careful, 2025

SwissQprint UV pigmented ink on acrylic
Edition 1 of 10
36 x 24 in.
$750

Artist’s Statement

Sew Careful is part of a series, Seen at Last: The Work of Women, observing the quiet labor that shapes daily life across places and cultures. The photographs move between presence and gesture: some women meet my lens, others remain just out of focus, and often it is their hands that speak: washing, lifting, mending, preparing, carrying.

Rather than spectacle, I focus on the ordinary rhythms that sustain households, communities, and economies—tasks performed without announcement and rarely recorded. By lingering on small acts and passing moments, these images ask us simply to notice the continuity of care and effort that underpins everyday life, and the women who, largely quietly, make it possible.