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Snake Plants: From Fiber to Fine Art
2020

This video details my process of foraging snake plants from Miami's urban core and processing them into fiber that I use to make paper and yarn.

In 2020 I began reshaping my practice around this question: How can I honor the traditions in my lineages, while also honoring the land that I currently occupy? My answer: across all of my lineages people crafted with materials that were abundantly available in their immediate surroundings.

In the last five years I’ve taken the time to learn how to make my own materials–twine, cloth, dye, paper, etc– by hand using techniques that people in my lineages used before me, and using plants that the indigenous peoples who stewarded these lands used before me as well. Urban land stewardship teaching urban land stewardship are built into my studio practice and pedagogy, my teaching practice. I define urban land stewardship as the process of caring for the places where plant people can grow within the built environment.

© 2020 Omolara Williams McCallister 

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