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Celia de Villiers
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Memory itself is a re-imagining of what is lost or gone. "If loss is known only by what remains of it, then the politics and ethics of mourning lie in the interpretation of what remains - how remains are produced and animated, how they are read and sustained."¹An embroidery project inspired by the aftermath of a devastating wildfire five years ago on our property. Compelled to express the disaster, I repeatedly made drawings of our burnt power-tools. Interpreting those aftermath drawings into embroidery, I inverted them, leading me down an imaginary, psycho-geographical pathway, navigated by salvaged yarns and threads. ¹Reference: The Politics of Mourning. Eng, D L and Kazanjian, D. 2003 (eds) Berkeley. University of California Press: p.ix Materials - Painted silk, chiffon, tulle and cotton. Hand spun, hand dyed and commercial yarns and embroidery threads, hand and machine embroidery. Hand quilted. Back to the exhibition
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