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you reclaim residue
2020
Installation of Lebanese Cedar (collected on Gadigal Country and Darug Country), cotton thread, silk cloth, lamé, metallic thread, the artist’s hair (2006, 2017, 2019), charred eucalypt leaf (collected on Gadigal Country 7/12/19) images: Zan Wimberley
Exhibited as part of Isma’ {listen} a group show with Shireen Taweel and Zeina Iaali at Firstdraft Woolloomooloo NSW,
8 - 31 January 2020
you can repair the scattering of your knowledge
you hold the needle and thread and patience we need, urgently
the intimacy of this work is an invitation
ahlan wa sahlan, welcome to this time and place, where we gather distance, seek memory, reclaim residue and re-gather our knowing.
you reclaim residue is part of a bigger practice of listening, a deep listening, with my heart, my intuition and my body.
a listening that opens and receives, gathers, absorbs and illuminates.
a listening that reclaims my ancestral ways of knowing in this critical time
when we remember the old ways, we remember the strength of who we are, the knowledge of our ancestors and our infinite relationship to our lands.
to listen is to know.
to know where I am.
to know who I am.