
Robe embroidered with chakras, cotton fabric dyed with avocado skin, cotton thread, sewing, dyeing, embroidery, 128 cm x 53 cm
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The idea of a puncture, as deflating, imploding, as something that undermines the structure by a collapse, is faulty. The puncture supports, it first releases a flow, by creating a gap, that then gets filled by thread, creating a filling, an upholding of the hollowed space. It is creating a real time tracing, not a map, but actions, situated. Situated on my body, following the meridians, my energy rivers. Sometimes the thread gathers, creating a bundle, a pressure point, a potential blockage, a point of attention of possible care. By tactical puncturing and pressuring, feeling its location, feeling it push into your body, you can make the river flow again.
The text is a manifesto of sorts that meditates on the act of embroidering. It conceptualises the thread’s journey through the woven fabric, and uncovers its spatiality through movement.Â
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‘I puncture’, text printed on satin fabric, 285 cm x 36 cm


