Baltic runes magic in Hudson Valley, New York.
We ventured upstate to Hudson, NY a month ago to visit the @lightforms_art_center exhibition of wearable ritual clothing art by Vilma Mare. @vilma_mare
Vilma hand-stitches enlarged specimens or patterns taken from museums and ethnology books in her original technique. She pays homage to Baltic mythology and a highly aesthetic visual logic. This respect for indigenous traditions is vital to Vilma’s work, as she continues traditional repetition and rituals, passed down from a grandmother to her granddaughter.
To Vilma, the sequence ─ Life. Death. Life ─ is comforting and reminiscent of the oldest beliefs, along with ornaments belonging to the semantic field of this particular theme. Ornate symbols found in archeological textiles of the 6-11th cent. woven sashes by Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians, and Finns. “In my work, I have to praise nations that never occupied another state. Peaceful indigenous mythology and highly aesthetic visual logic of ornaments must have shaped them to be great examples in this war-torn world,” says fashion designer and sartorial artist Marė.
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#textileart #textiledesign #artinhudson #fashion #warandfashion #latviansymbols #fashiondesign #etnofashion #paganclothing #ritualgarb #baltųraštai #fashiondesigner #fashionart #sartorialart
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We ventured upstate to Hudson, NY a month ago to visit the @lightforms_art_center exhibition of wearable ritual clothing art by Vilma Mare. @vilma_mare
Vilma hand-stitches enlarged specimens or patterns taken from museums and ethnology books in her original technique. She pays homage to Baltic mythology and a highly aesthetic visual logic. This respect for indigenous traditions is vital to Vilma’s work, as she continues traditional repetition and rituals, passed down from a grandmother to her granddaughter.
To Vilma, the sequence ─ Life. Death. Life ─ is comforting and reminiscent of the oldest beliefs, along with ornaments belonging to the semantic field of this particular theme. Ornate symbols found in archeological textiles of the 6-11th cent. woven sashes by Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians, and Finns. “In my work, I have to praise nations that never occupied another state. Peaceful indigenous mythology and highly aesthetic visual logic of ornaments must have shaped them to be great examples in this war-torn world,” says fashion designer and sartorial artist Marė.
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#textileart #textiledesign #artinhudson #fashion #warandfashion #latviansymbols #fashiondesign #etnofashion #paganclothing #ritualgarb #baltųraštai #fashiondesigner #fashionart #sartorialart
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