Invocation
This is a bit different, as I’ve not been coping well with the ethnic cleansing of my homeland that has started and is showing no sign of stopping, under cover of the lawless aggression againsy Iran that e must all pay for.
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Receiving Grace
Description: This piece was inspired by the work and above all the philosophy of Fukumi Shimura, Japanese dyer and weaver, who speaks about Kusakizome (dyeing with plants) being an act of “receiving colour”.
Anabasis/Katabasis
Description: In one last (?) exploration of indigo blue as an expression of mourning and darkness, this sequential piece is actually about the darkness lifting, and coming out of the dark: an anabasis. Symbolically completed on the Winter Solstice when the light begins to return, it is made up of the two stitched words
Circles of Time Replica
This time last year I was making a one-off medieval-style manuscript for Merton College in Oxford, on the subject of circular time and how it is measured and observed using the sun, moon and planets.
Veils of Mourning
It’s hard to believe my last email was back in January, but this was due to a combination of time-consuming commissions, moving cities (I’m still unpacking), and the fact that for the first time, I was completing a full series prior to releasing it below.
Gateways (Book of A Life)
Description: Gateways transposes a personal life journey into an abstract, symbolic experience of progressing through stations of pure colour.
Scroll of Waiting
Description: This scroll unrolls to read Ṣabr (“patience”) repeated in a light and delicate composition.
Resilience صمود
Description: This piece was made for the many populations who, at the time of making, are being subjected to ethnic cleansing and cultural erasure, though in a broader sense resilience is required from all of us to counter the erosion of human values we see taking place in real time.
Anthropocene Book I
Description: This portable manuscript recounts the six days of Creation as written in the Book of Genesis. But holes soon begin to appear in the pages and then multiply, making the text increasingly difficult to read. These lacunae are in fact the silhouettes of extinct animal species, wiped out by human activity within my own lifetime. Their absence undermines the meaning and integrity of the…
Trees Are Poems
Happy new year to you all!