Lucy’s Sampler (2020) is an engraving with letterpress text which depicts an embroidery sampler made by Katchadourian’s adoptive grandmother, Lucy, who was orphaned in the Armenian genocide around 1915 and later taken in by the artist’s paternal grandparents. The sampler, made by Lucy at age 12 while she was still living in an orphanage, is one of the only extant artifacts from her childhood. Katchadourian reproduced an image of the sampler by placing a piece of Plexiglas on the artifact and tracing over each of Lucy’s painstaking and carefully stitched marks with an engraving tool. This act of replication pays homage both to Lucy’s skill and to her lifelong caretaking of others.