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Past, Present and Future
I never knew weaving was an essential tool! Never thought about it. Today everything is instant.
Upon learning to weave some five years ago, one strong memory dawned on me after seeing an old photograph of an Aboriginal woman, holding a woven basket with the handle and lid attached to it.
I was around 5 years of age, and I remember a basket woven exactly like the one in the photograph, at my grandparents house. I remember trying to cut the lid away from the handle, because I thought it did not belong there. I remember the strong fibre, I remember it being too strong to cut and thought it was so weird to make something like that.
Ever since I learned my cultural weaving, a practice that was once forbidden, I think about what the world was like for my ancestors. The designs. The trade. The teaching. The usage. The accomplishment.
Since then, it became a dream to recreate a basket just like the basket in the photograph, just like the one I tried to cut! This piece, unfortunately is not made with the traditional grasses, that is my future when knowledge and resources are more readily available.
