Regenerate (Splitting Harmonies)A textile investigation, handmade & repurposed from single use plastic packaging. Made in Portland, Oregon, 2020
Textile & Art Direction by Ahnika Wood
Photography by Taniya Roberts
Modeled by Janae Nilo
Making this textile required cutting and carefully stretching thin, disposable packaging plastic, collected over several months from an office. After stretching each strand, they were then tied together to produce a continuous thread. The entirety of the thread was then crocheted. The resulting textile lost most resemblance from the ubitquious plastic objects it came from.
The land, body, and light sift porously through the textile structure. Yet, the water-repelling and almost immortal qualities of plastic manage to cloak a loved one with an airy grace. Made in response to a tumultuous relationship with textile labor under global capitalism, Regeneration reflects precarious tensions through personally constructed materiality.
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