Water Protectors
Textiles Performance An evening on the waters edge. Two women created a circle, and invited us in for a ceremony. We were wrapped in blankets. Four of us- a crone, two mothers and a child-stood each at a node- with ceremonial sticks used to keep rhythm. Women are traditionally the Water Protectors. Our collective voices sang a water protector song to the seven directions. The October supermoon rose as we sang across the ocean, in solidarity with the water protectors of Standing Rock and with the water protectors of all nations. We sang to protect clean water from the dark matter.
These forms made from videotape and water bottles have appeared in many forms in many exhibitions including Creature Conserve, and the Van Vessem, Gallery
THEMES Textiles PerformanceKnitting the 7 Ring
A first time collaboration with my mother, at the closing of “Contextilized” at the Jamestown Art Center (RI) https://www.jamestownartcenter.org/exhibitions-past/cw5cgit1yb3w1fxb6d50v88aglk1as
My mother, a dancer introduced me to Buckminster Fuller, dynamic geometry and topology. She teaches at the Laban Institute of Movement Studies.
Photo credits: Susan Tacent and Margie Butler
