A Woven Home
This practice-led research explores how basket weaving serves as a mode of making that visualizes the impermanence of my nomadic experience and expresses the notion of ‘home’. The research draws upon personal narratives of displacement, where frequent relocation shaped an enduring search for home, one that is both transient and deeply rooted in lived experience.
The theoretical framework integrates perspectives from Taoism, Wabi-Sabi aesthetics, and Eastern philosophies of impermanence, positioning weaving as a contemplative practice that aligns with the rhythms of nature. Basketry, as both a physical and conceptual framework, becomes a vessel for exploring the dualities of home—presence and absence, containment and openness, rootedness and movement.
Through an iterative process of foraging, collecting, and weaving with natural materials, I investigate how the act of making can embody themes of impermanence, memory, and belonging. By engaging with organic materials such as seed pods, bark, and plant fibres, I navigate the temporality of materials, allowing decay, transformation, and renewal to inform my making process. This research examines how the techniques of coiling, twining, and binding can translate affective experiences of detachment, serenity, and spiritual connection into tactile forms.
