Aug 6 - Aug 28, 2002
Patterns of Transformation
a project by Sheng Lor
featuring
mural art by Chad Abbey
poetry by Renée Ya
Patterns of Transformation is a refugee community story cloth project
that leverages Hmong textile forms and visual language to explore
memory, trauma, and healing. Using woven cloth, natural dyes, embroidery
and appliqué, the project employs traditional textile materials and
techniques to reimagine cloth as a medium for discourse, giving context
as well as visibility to complex narratives among refugee and diasporic
communities.
This exhibition was supported by the Alliance for California Traditional
Arts through the Sankofa Initiative of the San Francisco Arts
Commission, by Surface Design Association, and by the Journal Building
Artist Collective.
