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Bunker and border

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map / Peace / Textiles

In response to T. Vinoja’s stitching on fabric ‘Bunker & Border’ seen as part of ‘Unravel’ at The Barbican It is a map of war It is also check points      bunkers burial sites      bones      excavation it is also ghost prints of displacement it is also waterwheel it is also ammonite history     your story      written in cloth it is also river      running     […]

Palestinian Embroidery

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Poetry / Textiles

In response to “Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery” at The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Because I don’t comprehend the meaning of the word to rend        because the word tears looks too much like crying and these holes rent in cloth look too much like bullet holes edged in dangerously bright thread Because all the dresses and cloth here were left behind        or given away hopefully freely        with […]