This installation, known affectionately as ‘Spiderwoman’, is about the way women are connected in space and time through our thoughts and emotions and physical being with parents, children, lovers and places – the past and the future.
Originally the three sacking panels hung among trees in a procession with threads connecting the panels to each other and then to a woman’s figure of live green plants lying on the ground.
I made it on Hessian by stitching and weaving and glueing and I used the contents of my pantry, my sewing basket and the boxes of souvenirs that I brought from home in Africa.
It does pay homage to traditional African Art which is about ritual, process, and it is therefore, ephemeral and not designed to be used outside performance.
It does question the traditional academic separation of thought and feeling, of science and art.