Spiral Clay Mound
Spiral Clay Mound by Làl Yilmaz, 2024
Textile 1 of a trio
Hand painted screen-print on cotton using reactive dyes
Dimensions: 160 x 90 cm
This is an excerpt from the text Làl wrote about her collection of textile pieces:
A red stitch surrounds the map of the world that births us once and again. This is a land where eggs are vessels of souls, where birds carry messages in pomegranate seeds between the layers of the universe, a human body becomes animal, and trees turn into erupting volcanos. There is a hand that heals through its peppercorn spine, and towers over the spiral clay mound. Hybrid bodies inhabit this land in their journey of becoming…
This is a collection exploring interlinking worlds within an alternate reality inspired by folklore, mythologies, anthropological sources, alchemy and philosophy via a medium of printed textiles. I’m interested in the depths of storytelling, symbolism, and the cyclical patterns inherent in metamorphic processes. Materiality has guided the visual narrative, with copper, leather, and wood chosen for the collection, symbolizing the interconnectedness of the mineral, animal, and plant realms—fundamental components of the natural world.
Spiral Clay Mound by Làl Yilmaz, 2024
Textile 1 of a trio
Hand painted screen-print on cotton using reactive dyes
Dimensions: 160 x 90 cm
This is an excerpt from the text Làl wrote about her collection of textile pieces:
A red stitch surrounds the map of the world that births us once and again. This is a land where eggs are vessels of souls, where birds carry messages in pomegranate seeds between the layers of the universe, a human body becomes animal, and trees turn into erupting volcanos. There is a hand that heals through its peppercorn spine, and towers over the spiral clay mound. Hybrid bodies inhabit this land in their journey of becoming…
This is a collection exploring interlinking worlds within an alternate reality inspired by folklore, mythologies, anthropological sources, alchemy and philosophy via a medium of printed textiles. I’m interested in the depths of storytelling, symbolism, and the cyclical patterns inherent in metamorphic processes. Materiality has guided the visual narrative, with copper, leather, and wood chosen for the collection, symbolizing the interconnectedness of the mineral, animal, and plant realms—fundamental components of the natural world.
Spiral Clay Mound by Làl Yilmaz, 2024
Textile 1 of a trio
Hand painted screen-print on cotton using reactive dyes
Dimensions: 160 x 90 cm
This is an excerpt from the text Làl wrote about her collection of textile pieces:
A red stitch surrounds the map of the world that births us once and again. This is a land where eggs are vessels of souls, where birds carry messages in pomegranate seeds between the layers of the universe, a human body becomes animal, and trees turn into erupting volcanos. There is a hand that heals through its peppercorn spine, and towers over the spiral clay mound. Hybrid bodies inhabit this land in their journey of becoming…
This is a collection exploring interlinking worlds within an alternate reality inspired by folklore, mythologies, anthropological sources, alchemy and philosophy via a medium of printed textiles. I’m interested in the depths of storytelling, symbolism, and the cyclical patterns inherent in metamorphic processes. Materiality has guided the visual narrative, with copper, leather, and wood chosen for the collection, symbolizing the interconnectedness of the mineral, animal, and plant realms—fundamental components of the natural world.