Mycelial Threads

Artist Tahereh Sheerazie (Pakistani-American)

Date2021

MediumScreen printing and embroidery on reverse Chinese silk brocade

DimensionsUnframed: 60 x 16 in. (152.4 x 40.6 cm)

ClassificationsTextile

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Escalette Endowment

Object number2023.30.2

Label TextThis work is part of a series of three wall panels that "were started in 2017, during a year-long journey of screen printing every Thursday evening, at the Metabolic Studio in Chinatown. At the time I had no idea why I was printing so much, except for the joy of working in community with friends and strangers, known, unknown, and emerging artists. In a state of panic when I abruptly lost my teaching job in March 2020, Covid-19 closures became the catalyst that made me pull out all those screen prints to which I began adding applique and embroidery. Torn apart, then patched together, stitching the pieces back thread by thread into new forms over old ones, 'mycelial threads' connecting us all, and 'urban forests' giving us refuge 'all together'. As Lauren Bon's screen-printed quote puts it so succinctly 'Artists create on the same scale that society has the capacity to destroy.'" - Tahereh Sheerazie

Fabric Contributions: Sayed Sheerazie, Lena Alfi
Screen printed at Metabolic Studio 2017

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