Shadowshemen are collaborations of knowledges spun into being.
Fibrous giants.
Casting bodies, that traffic in healing spells.
They are storytellers.
Always arriving, ready to mend, shed or unravel.
Full of holes, they are holy.
They understand tension, weight, and leakage.
They are carriers of warmth.
Shadowshemen are stand-ins.
Surrogates.
Spaceholders for sympathetic magic.
Shadowshemen I
handspun linen, wool and silk, linen thread, pine, graphite
9 feet x 3 feet x 3 feet
2022
Shadowshemen II
handspun dyed bambooo, banana, and rose fibers, dyed jute twine, linen thread, copper pipe
9 1/2 feet x 6 feet x 1 feet
2022
Shadowshemen III
handspun linen, wool, silk and sari fiber, dyed jute rope, linen thread, broom stick
9 feet x 4 feet x 3 feet
2022