FORMS SHAPED THROUGH TIME
PUBLIC SCULPTURE
HOLBORN CIRCUS LONDON UK 2016 - 2017
Forms Shaped Through Time
Was installed at Holborn Circus in Central London 2016- 2017 with support from the Arts council of England.
This piece developed as a result of listening to landscape.
Walking the mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in pouring rain, it was possible to hear the contours of the land mapped out in water.
While I was spending my days in the Sierra Nevada I often pressed my ear to the floor and the sound of millions of species described the shape and form of the landscape.
Forms Shaped Through Time was inspired by the land and time I spent learning from the Kogi and Wiwa tribes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, to whom weaving is central to daily life and spiritual practice.
I first met members of the wiwa tribe in the botanical gardens at a festival of indigenous culture, we formed a connection and they inited me to stay with them in thier community.
The Kogi and the Wiwa weave there lives through their land, building settlements into its contours in response to the pull and curvature of the landscape. They create woven cloth from cactus fibers, which responds to the geometry of nature of which they are both the guardians and caretakers.