CREATIVE WORKSHOP (in-person, finally!)
roots & threads: the sacred art of making ancestral scrolls.
A small group, intimate slow-stitching & ancestral connection retreat with me.
I'll be sharing my knowledge and skills openly.
"I’m very excited to be sharing this sacred practice with you ~ a weekend of stitching intuitively, playfully and in community, allowing our ancestors to guide our hands and threads.
We’ll be creating our very own ancestral scrolls that hold the stories of our lineages - sacred tactile artefacts of remembrance honoring our ancestors lives lived with courage and survival, so that we could be here, now.
Every stitch, every piece of fabric, every embellishment, every mark we make becomes precious through its connection to something greater than ourselves, a gift from the ancestors. Our scroll-making is our reciprocity, our remembering and our gratitude.
We’ll create what could only have been made in this moment - stitching forward the wisdom of those who came before us.”
For booking and more information please visit /roots-threads-creative-retreat.
Hope to see you there!
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Paternal Grandmother ancestral scroll II. Finished scroll 💚
Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of my father becoming an ancestor. Today I was thinking I feel just as close to both my parents as when they were alive. I can feel them inside me, alongside me. I feel my paternal grandmother too.
This whole scroll making process is deeply alchemical, soothing and connecting. It's also really slow as I have to manage my physical limitations. If I do too much too quick, I'm in pain. This process is teaching me a lot about slow making, for the love of making.
For a list of materials, please check out previous posts.
I'm hoping to run some in-person ancestral scroll workshops this summer in Sheffield. Please DM if you're interested in coming along.
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Maternal Great Grandfather mixed-media scroll-book in-progress: rough draft and more experiments. Not the book at all I envisioned...yet the book that's come through. A letter from my Maternal Great Grandfather, his vision becoming reality, after years of indentured Labour on the Kenyan railroads. He knew we'd be here. Thank you 🙏🏽
Next step pasting/arranging/layers. Feels hard to commit to this part. Feeling the fears of possible mistakes and wrong decisions that I may regret. Like life eh?
Creating across many spaces: slow-stitched scrolls, words and artist book to navigate/manage unruly joints & health. This practice is working well for me.
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Some reflections from my own 1980's miseducation and the healing and poetic force of punk.
Inspired by @bobbyvylan 's urgent report on @doubledownnews . Do watch this please especially if you have kids.
Over on my blogspace: /blog/miseducating-future-minds
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Kular family scroll.
Some early reflections on making this slow-stitched essay in-progress over on substack (or on /blog if you prefer old school).
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The Kular Family Scroll (early years) in-progress. Two ancestors & 4 siblings 💚
The panels have now been joined together. This is the longest scroll I've made. Next I'll be stitching all the words on to the panels...
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Fragments of family life: experimental & in-progress artist book.
Exploring repeated memories and images that haunt. Why?
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Visual scruffbag journaling. Has kept me going these past few months. Grateful. An in/consistent and essential part of my creative existence. Keeping me sane.
1. Freshly made journal pages.
2. Folded in to my next journal.
3. Journals pile from 1st March - now. Yeah it's been quite a time! Will be Coptic stitched with gold thread at the end of the month.
Huge gratitude to creative comrade @shereemackwrites for inspiring part of this process.
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Sibling scroll panel-in-progress. Waiting to see what this panel needs next...
My big bro with a rack of freshly baked cakes. Back garden. Around 1968. Sheffield.
Old curtain, tea & turmeric stained, metallic threads, photo transfer, embroidery floss. And a wiggly trim that I'm not sure about. It might come off.
Weekend blessings to all.
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Some reflections on making my first ancestral scroll, dedicated to my Nani Ji, Gurbachan Kaur.
Here's the link if you'd love to read: /p/a-stitched-essay-writing-through
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Sibling scroll panel-in-progress.
My big/middle sis, 1973. Western Park, Sheffield.
Unruly stitching like no-one's watching (actually, nobody is!).
Loving the freedom of this way of working. Stitching for stitching's sake. To make things look impossible, improbable and scary to those who love neatness and order!
To make things look beautiful for my eyes, heart and soul. Just because.
Vintage material/lace panel, pre-embroidered panel from old duvet cover (ecodyed), shisha, embroidery floss.
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