To All the Bodies I've Dreamt of Carrying in Absence of Yours
My first TC2 weavings, To All the Bodies I've Dreamt of Carrying in Absence of Yours. I had been thinking a lot about grief in the past year or two before these came to fruition. The weaving patterns are entirely text, taken from a "grief corpus" I had been working on (collecting song lyrics, poetry, court documents, newspaper articles, texts from friends) compiled into one big wall of fragmentary text. This was definitely a way to work through processing death; there's something about messaging friends you may not have talked to in months to ask for pictures of roadkill for your art project & involuntarily imagining those bodies as theirs.
I've always been really into making little shrines for the dead animals I come across, & this was sort of a shrine for a dearly departed friend. I really had no clue what this was going to look like until it was complete. I think, after this, I was able to finally begin the process of postmortem mythologizing. There's a line somewhere in here that says "I don't want to live with this feeling any longer than I have to, but I also don't want you to be gone."