Georgia Barber

'For the past year and some previous, I have been experimenting with Japanese paper both hand and digitally printing my pattern designs onto washi and concocting them mostly into Ikebana style arrangements with wonky vases and fantasy flora.  This mahi was created between November 2020 and August 2021 in Seattle.  The underbelly of this body lies in the art of gathering - pre ‘you know what’ gathering, how we presently gather and how our ancestors gathered, how to practice connection in a disconnected world, the returning, education and importance of whenua stewardship to the hands of indigenous populations whose knowledge we should more than ever be taking on board, colonisation, identity, hope, what we hold within, self care and the maintenance of one’s own good sweet vibration... I believe the arts are the most powerful healing tools we humanoids have on tap'.