Rebecca Ann Boden
beckyboden45@hotmail.com
I am a Textile designer whose work also links into fashion and textile crafts.
My most current project is based upon the magical object of the dream catcher and the Native American culture. The Native Americans believe that the dream catcher captures the negative dreams and releases the positive; I was intrigued by how this beautiful object that hangs above me protects me and guides me through the night.
The idea of the dream catcher’s threaded web, capturing and trapping my dreams, inspired me to produce a series of textile pieces, that are inspired by the idea of keeping hold off and also trapping objects within handmade webs.
I experimented with numerous methods to create the web formations that would hold various embellishments such as feathers, beads, threads all elements that are used within dream catchers. Displaying these webs on a printed surface created by heat transfer inks, gives them a base to stand out against.
“ Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.”
Native American Poem - Chief Seattle, 1854
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