A Call for Gathering
A Call for Gathering
2022-present
Weaving, food, and conversations
Over food and slow weaving, I invite small groups to gather, reflect, and share. The project is inspired by a charpai, a wooden structure with a woven webbing. The charpai was the center of life in the courtyard of my childhood home in Pakistan. It was a surface for cleaning rice and drying chillies, resting, hosting, and many more everyday domestic needs. As a child, I observed my grandmother and aunts weaving it together. I see this object and the collaborative nature of the weaving process as a powerful metaphor for interconnectedness. The intention of this work is not to recreate a functional furniture object in a different cultural context, but to extend the metaphors embedded within the process of collective weaving.
This work is supported in part by funding from:
Carnegie Mellon University Frank-Ratchye Further Fund, 2022
Allegheny County Arts Revival Grant, 2022
WEAVE, Gist Yarn Artist-in-Residency Program, 2022
Wherewithal Research Grant by the Washington Project for the Arts, 2021