An Encyclopedia of Embodied Politics
An Encyclopedia of Embodied Politics, my MFA thesis project for California College of the Arts, consists of short essays that move between poetic and scholarly. The full publication can be read on issuu.com
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Red, Yellow, Blue: Excerpts from An Encyclopedia of Embodied Politics
2012
In the woven manifestations of this encyclopedia, pieces of cloth and sources of color become the foundation for a language. Fragments of thread become pathways into the entanglement of bodies as public and private, personal and political. The entries Red, Yellow, and Blue materialize as cloth handwoven on a digital Jacquard loom. The threads from which they are composed were unraveled from utilitarian textiles or were the remains from other projects.
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