Eternal pride and joy 🙏✨🔥🌹 it’s been my honour and privilege to walk with you Rose, and looking forward to all future plans with our weaving sisterhood 🌱🌿✨🍎 #Repost @wild_rose_weaving
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🔥The Threshold 🕸 it’s safe to say it’s taken a while to publish my final post as a Weaving Apprentice. I wrote it back in September but a part of me has resisted the end of that chapter and the start of my new thread. It is done now, and I have since made 5 pieces. Putting creative work onto a timeline is always a fascinating thing- for me this timeline presents my blossoming into Womanhood. And I will be eternally thankful to my dearest sister @imogen.di.sapia for guiding me there ✨🌹🌿 The link is in my bio. And whilst this is the end of my weaving apprenticeship blogging, it is just the start of my new quests. Blessings to all, may all beings be free from suffering, Rose 🌹 x
Here’s my current artwork in exhibition @spiltmilkgallery Edinburgh ・・・
Imogen Di Sapia, Chromosome 17. Hand spun black and white wools, vintage metallic threads, wild silk, antique ecclesiastical pure gold thread; linen and cotton warp; 2019.
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‘Chromosome 17 is a process-work based on the recent discovery of my ancestral DNA. In this work two worlds unite; the technological age of DNA analysis and the ancient hand-weaving craft of my Balouch ancestors, the nomadic rug weavers of antiquity. It is a response to learning about my matrilineal heritage, maternal haplo-group and discovering my X-branch and autosomal DNA relatives across the world. This work poses many questions for me to sit with; is it a coincidence that I weave, now knowing that far back in time, my grandmothers were doing the same? What is inheritance and is there such a thing as DNA-inherited artistry and creative making? How to I balance my perception of my ‘individuality’ and life choices, whilst honouring that invisible ladder of information that is held within my body through millennia of birthing, that is apparently active through my arts practice today? How do I balance culture markers in my body’s material with the difficulties and dislocation of collective cultural appropriation; how do I claim myself with respect to the past?
Chromosome 17 is a visual representation of my coded DNA analysis, seen as lines on a graphic table, emailed as ‘raw data’. Each line a rich seam of information, carrying not only my eye colour, but my whole grandmother line into this lived experience.’
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Installation image of ‘Chromosome 17’ hanging next to Victoria Smits and Jill Skulina at St Margaret’s House. Exhibition open 11-5 until October 12th. Tour and closing reception Saturday 12th 4-7pm. photo by Joan Doyle. .
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