Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Pink Full Moon - Textile Poem 35.768a

The following verse is a re-working of an archive label (pre-digital) for a length of deep red/pink Japanese Brocade. The lush lining was found in an inventory box at the RISD Museum, tucked away in the Costume and Textile Collection's vaults.


Textile Poem 35.768a

Japanese Brocade
In imitation of 17th century Broussa textile
Symmetrical arrangement
Of pomegranates
Within ogives formed of stems
Bearing roses and pinks;
Tulips appear to grow from the top of pomegranates;
In green, blue, white and gold-coloured silk threads
And overspun gold threads
On crimson satin ground;
Gold galloon around edge.
Cond.: slightly worn

by Lisa Z. Morgan, 2017






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Lisa Z. Morgan is an artist, designer and writer. The subject and object of desire has been a palpable constant within her artistic expression both as a motivation and in its embodiment or articulation. Through her creativity and research Morgan examines how the value of provenance, of rarity and storytelling, puts into question or provokes our understanding and relationship towards desire and the desire impulse. Her focus has been how we may access, stimulate and touch the internal points of registration or the emotional dynamics of bodily perception. In essence she attempts to define and make manifest the feeling of feeling. Her work inhabits a space where art, semiotics, design and fashion intersect. Morgan is the Co-Founder of STRUMPET & PINK and the Co-Founder of The Lavender Hinge. She is the author and creative editor of Design Behind Desire and also a contributor to SHOWstudio and The Laboratory Arts Collective.

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