Banner / Donna Haraway, 2024
IT MATTERS WHAT MATTERS WE USE TO THINK OTHER MATTERS WITH; IT MATTERS WHAT STORIES WE TELL TO TELL OTHER STORIES WITH; IT MATTERS WHAT KNOTS KNOT KNOTS, WHAT THOUGHTS THINK THOUGHTS, WHAT DESCRIPTIONS DESCRIBE DESCRIPTIONS, WHAT TIES TIE TIES. IT MATTERS WHAT STORIES MAKE WORLDS, WHAT WORLDS MAKE STORIES.
by Donna J. Haraway from ‘Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene’
silver and red glass beads, thread, woven
length: 580cm, wide: 1,7cm
Banner / Ursula Le Guin, 2024
I THINK, THAT WHEN I DIE, I CAN BREATHE BACK THE BREATH THAT MADE ME LIVE. I CAN GIVE BACK TO THE WORLD ALL THAT I DIDN'T DO. ALL THAT I MIGHT HAVE BEEN AND COULDN'T BE. ALL THE CHOICES I DIDN'T MAKE. ALL THE THINGS I LOST AND SPENT AND WASTED. I CAN GIVE THEM BACK TO THE WORLD. TO THE LIVES THAT HAVEN'T BEEN LIVED YET. THAT WILL BE MY GIFT BACK TO THE WORLD THAT GAVE ME THE LIFE I DID LIVE, THE LOVE I LOVED, THE BREATH I BREATHED.”
by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind
light blue and silver glass beads, thread
length: 532cm, wide: 1,6cm
Banner / Siri Hustvedt, 2024
WE MUST ALL ALLOW OURSELVES THE FANTASY OF PROJECTION FROM TIME TO TIME, A CHANCE TO CLOTHE OURSELVES IN THE IMAGINARY GOWNS AND TAILS OF WHAT HAS NEVER BEEN AND NEVER WILL BE. THIS GIVES SOME POLISH TO OUR TARNISHED LIVES, AND SOMETIMES WE MAY CHOOSE ONE DREAM OVER ANOTHER, AND IN THE CHOOSING FIND SOME RESPITE FROM ORDINARY SADNESS. AFTER ALL, WE, NONE OF US, CAN EVER UNTANGLE THE KNOT OF FICTIONS THAT MAKE UP THAT WOBBLY THING WE CALL A SELF.
by Siri Hustvedt, ‘The Summer Without Men’
silver and red glassbeads, thread
length: 580cm, wide: 1,7cm
