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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, Imaginative Architecture. Inspired by the word: Kyká: world; town; story; region. Word Origin:Muysk kubun, Central Columbia. Word Contributor: Nicolás Acosta, Cesar Sanchéz León, Diana Castillo, Stefanny Contreras, Michael Ramírez.
This culture defined Kyka as giving meaning to existence. When I look at the English translation, I think of towns and stories that the various architecture styles help convey. The Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, created by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, forms a mosaic of shapes & colors. I loved its light-heartedness, and it became the inspiration for this abstract artwork. One article said that Hundertwasser’s work reminds us that “life is not meant to be order and rigid, but a beautiful sea of colors and forms, waiting to be discovered”.
Commercial fabric, polyester batting, cotton/poly & monofilament thread, pigments, satin cording. Piecing fabrics into an abstract design.
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