Fabric: "Closure, Resolution and Renewal"
Karen
Madigan
11th September 2001
On a day like today love is everything. As the last words of doomed men and women reach out from phone messages offering, at the last, only love for their dear ones, we fall silent in the face of their pain.
It's not often that love features quite so strongly in the everyday news.
Dealing with sorrow often takes a physical form: making soup, writing a poem, weeding a garden, cleaning a room. For a weaver the impulse is to create a fabric. For the Web weaver, a memorial in HTML. The Web is full of shrines, now more than ever.
Producing an art project could seem irrelevant in the face of such suffering (and did, for several days). But one way of expressing love is in words, and so I carried on and finished the project, and here, in this quiet corner of Web Warp & Weft, maybe we can spare a thought or a prayer for the victims, and make a resolution to spread a little love today.
Helen Whitehead, 15th September 2001
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