A sculpture emerging from the 2021 Mediterranean forest fires is a tribute to ravaged landscapes. It merges human and non-human voices, infusing the fabric with ash-hydrogel from the site. Factual, personal, and tree noises are translated into knitted patterns, each stitch telling a tale of the land.

 

Echoing Memories is a tribute to the landscapes devastated by the alarming rise in wildfires in recent years. Created as a response to the forest fires that ravaged the Mediterranean in 2021, this piece bears witness to the profound impact on our planet's ecosystems. The textile cloth serves as a tangible remnant, a silent testament to the destruction left in the wildfires' wake. Within its fibres, two distinct processes converge, weaving a layered narrative that unfolds the multiplicity of human and non-human voices. The fabric's knitted pattern transforms a multitude of voices into elaborate patterns, serving as a vehicle for narrative. These voices echo factual data, personal reflections, and the haunting echoes of burning trees.

Each stitch tells a tale, preserving the memory of the land's collective story. The use of biomaterials extends the work beyond visual pattern representation. The textile is infused with hydrogel—ash collected from the wildfire landscape. The hydrogel solidifies the cloth and takes its final shape. Through this synthesis of textile craftsmanship, storytelling, and biomaterial integration, Echoing Memories can be seen as a way to engage and stay with the trouble (Harraway,2016) by listening to the land's whispers.

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