String Figures
“Playing games of string figures is about giving and receiving patterns, dropping threads and failing but sometimes finding something that works, something consequential and maybe even beautiful, that wasn’t there before, of relaying connections that matter, of telling stories in hand upon hand, digit upon digit, attachment site upon attachment site, to craft conditions for finite flourishing on terra, on earth. String figures require holding still in order to receive and pass on. String figures can be played by many, on all sorts of limbs, as long as the rhythm of accepting and giving is sustained. Scholarship and politics are like that too - passing on in twists and skeins that require passion and action, holding still and moving, anchoring and launching.”
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Troubles
Kinship Photography Collective did a show on the Bartram Trail at the Bascom Center for the Arts in Highlands, North Carolina. After taking pictures along the trail I printed some out and began playing with them – shaping them forming them in a kind of free form collage. It felt like I was making string figures with the trees and rocks.
“Playing games of string figures is about giving and receiving patterns, dropping threads and failing but sometimes finding something that works, something consequential and maybe even beautiful, that wasn’t there before, of relaying connections that matter, of telling stories in hand upon hand, digit upon digit, attachment site upon attachment site, to craft conditions for finite flourishing on terra, on earth. String figures require holding still in order to receive and pass on. String figures can be played by many, on all sorts of limbs, as long as the rhythm of accepting and giving is sustained. Scholarship and politics are like that too - passing on in twists and skeins that require passion and action, holding still and moving, anchoring and launching.”
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Troubles
Kinship Photography Collective did a show on the Bartram Trail at the Bascom Center for the Arts in Highlands, North Carolina. After taking pictures along the trail I printed some out and began playing with them – shaping them forming them in a kind of free form collage. It felt like I was making string figures with the trees and rocks.
