On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival
by Anne Wilson, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Isaac Facio, Nneka Kai, L Vinebaum, Jerry Bleem, Gustavo Da Silva, Wafa Ghnaim, Jen Chen-Su Huang, Cristian Koepfli, Alipio Melo, Sarah Molina, Maria Jose Murillo, Lucinda Pelton, Sharbreon Plummer, Jenni Sorkin, Barbara Teller Ornelas, Lynda Teller Pete, Cybele Tom, Melinda Watt, Danitza Willka, Folayemi Wilson
On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival brings together diverse contributors to consider how textiles respond to grief, memory, absence, and resilience. Centering material practice and lived experience, this interdisciplinary volume explores the emotional and cultural meanings that textiles can hold in times of loss.
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On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival considers the ways textiles can express experiences of grief, absence, and remembrance.
Through contributions from a broad group of artists, writers, scholars, and textile practitioners, the book examines mourning and survival from multiple perspectives.
Its focus on textile practices places material, memory, and emotional experience at the center of a wide-ranging cultural conversation.
The volume offers readers an interdisciplinary look at how textiles can carry personal and collective meanings in response to loss.
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