Projects: Mapping the Walk and other projects
Oasis Siwa/Korydallos Dialogue
I began this project by studying the stylized floral motifs of a richly embroidered Cretan textile in the Benaki collection. I tracked down the actual plant sources depicted and made realistic prints on cloth of the plants. I sent these prints to women in Oasis Siwa in the Great Sand Sea of western Egypt, inviting them to embroider their own original designs over my prints. Working together in their homes, not far from the temple where Alexander the Great was crowned Sun King, they embelished my simple prints with imaginative, stylized floral motifs in sequins, beads and thread. I then transposed these embroderies into prints on fabric and sent them to women inmates of Korydallos Prison Athens Greece. Using appliqué and embroidery to depict, stylized birds, animals and people, they brought the collaborative project back full circle to the imagery and spirit of the original Cretan embroidery. These works, wrought by numerous hands in a global exchange, merge past and present in a shared language of fabric and ornamentation.
Oasis Siwa/Korydallos Dialogue
I began this project by studying the stylized floral motifs of a richly embroidered Cretan textile in the Benaki collection. I tracked down the actual plant sources depicted and made realistic prints on cloth of the plants. I sent these prints to women in Oasis Siwa in the Great Sand Sea of western Egypt, inviting them to embroider their own original designs over my prints. Working together in their homes, not far from the temple where Alexander the Great was crowned Sun King, they embelished my simple prints with imaginative, stylized floral motifs in sequins, beads and thread. I then transposed these embroderies into prints on fabric and sent them to women inmates of Korydallos Prison Athens Greece. Using appliqué and embroidery to depict, stylized birds, animals and people, they brought the collaborative project back full circle to the imagery and spirit of the original Cretan embroidery. These works, wrought by numerous hands in a global exchange, merge past and present in a shared language of fabric and ornamentation.
Oasis Siwa/Korydallos Dialogue
I began this project by studying the stylized floral motifs of a richly embroidered Cretan textile in the Benaki collection. I tracked down the actual plant sources depicted and made realistic prints on cloth of the plants. I sent these prints to women in Oasis Siwa in the Great Sand Sea of western Egypt, inviting them to embroider their own original designs over my prints. Working together in their homes, not far from the temple where Alexander the Great was crowned Sun King, they embelished my simple prints with imaginative, stylized floral motifs in sequins, beads and thread. I then transposed these embroderies into prints on fabric and sent them to women inmates of Korydallos Prison Athens Greece. Using appliqué and embroidery to depict, stylized birds, animals and people, they brought the collaborative project back full circle to the imagery and spirit of the original Cretan embroidery. These works, wrought by numerous hands in a global exchange, merge past and present in a shared language of fabric and ornamentation.