Pēnelópē
Notations on Movement and Process
My thesis examines textile craftsmanship and its relations to questions of being-in-the-world in biological, cultural and mythological contexts. Penelope is understood as an archetypal figure who alternates between weaving and un-weaving, a movement of bringing forth and dissolving. This world-sustaining activity follows a concept of creativity that is now untimely: the task of repeating cosmogony in ritual movement and, through “morphogony”, maintaining the narrative fabric of the world. Reading the intertwinings becomes the tracing of cyclical movements and narratives.
