extras
Mediums, Process and Influences
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language spelled out in stitches. It overlaps and relapses between the two.
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… they way to proceed … I use a plethora of approaches ….
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so many, so more …
WOMEN AND STITCHING
"Craft is the surface on which women have written their private hopes and public resistance."
— Rozsika Parker, feminist art historian
"The traditional dismissal of textile arts as 'women's work' is itself a misogynistic act of cultural devaluation. Embroidery is not a lesser art form, but a complex language of survival and storytelling."
— textile artist Helena Hernmarck
"Textile work is revolutionary.
It transforms the mundane into the political, turning domestic labor into an act of creative and feminist agency."
— Lucy Lippard, art critic and feminist writer
"Needlework was not just a domestic duty, but a form of silent rebellion and creative expression for women historically constrained by patriarchal structures."
— Judy Chicago, feminist artist
"Every stitch is a statement. Women's needlework has always been a powerful method of recording history, resistance, and personal narrative when our voices were systematically silenced."
— Gloria Anzaldúa, feminist scholar
WOMEN AND VOICE
"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words"
— - Hélène Cixous, feminist theorist
"Words are a form of action, capable of transforming reality"
— Angela Davis, feminist philosopher
"The act of speaking is itself a feminist gesture"
— bell hooks, feminist scholar
"Your silence will not protect you"
— Audre Lorde, feminist writer and activist
contact
I’m very open to collaborations, conversations and convergences …
majenamafe-at-gmail-dot-com