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Created as part of my SAQA KS/MO/OK Regional Exhibition in 2024, inspired by the living-language-land project (at living-language-land.org). That project, devised by a small group based out of the UK, involved people in other countries around the world. The result was a set of 26 words from endangered and minority languages, contributed by members of indigenous communities. Their goal was to reveal different ways of relating to land and nature, and enlarge the lexicon we can all draw from in reflecting on those relationships. The project was related to COP26 (a series of annual global climate negotiations under the umbrella of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)), with a hope of giving a global audience fresh inspiration for our environmental crisis.
We were asked to select a word and create one or more art quilts inspired by that word, based on our own research, experiences and creative voice. Works could be a combination of 12” and/or 24”, either 2D or 3D.
This art quilt, Companions. Inspired by the word: Tamposati: Those born in the Rio Tambo. Word Origin: Asháninka, Junín Region, Peruvian Amazon. Word Contributor: Yessica Sánchez Comanti.
This word identifies those born in the Tambo River, guardians and caretakers of their nature. The Tambo River is a Peruvian river that is part of the Amazon River’s headwaters. In 2009, I visited the Amazon basin area. We visited local Indian villages and met the people that lived there. I saw a young girl with a baby sloth as her companion. Other children had monkeys and colorful parrots with them. They all inspired this art piece.
Commercial fabric, polyester batting, cotton/poly & monofilament thread, pigments, satin cording. I used raw-edge applique and my Pigment Patchwork techniques to create this work.
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