Lifelines

Lifelines is the result of a workshop in which participants express what slavery history means to them. Important questions in this context are: How has the slavery past shaped your path, what have you encountered, what does the trail your ancestors blazed look like, what do you take with you from the past, what do you leave behind and what does your Routed Cloth look like?

Based on shared conversations, participants create texts and signs. A whimsical “map” emerges with trails that twist, flame fervently, prick, fan away and curl inward. A route canvas of meaningful lifelines.

DATA
Location: Exhibition “Voices of Women,” Imagine IC, Amsterdam
Material: Painted ink and silkscreen on cotton
Dimensions: 260 x 320 cm
Client: Imagine IC, Amsterdam Southeast
Year: 2003
Contributors: Stanley Slijngaard, Lyanda Augustuszoon, Marlene Tuinfort, Camilla Johanns, Gladys Nelstein, Abaisa Otis Alken, Roy Wijks, Lies Cruden, Hortensia Elmzoon