Visual & Textile Archival Practice

textile explorations and practice-based investigations of movement, liberation, and (in)visibility across time and space through avatar Lily Water.

The series explores ancestral materiality and embodied legacies, serving as a personal history archive that investigates indigenous knowledge systems and ancestral materiality and spiritual powers of craftsmanship. These process-based and embodied photo include excerpts from a photo performance essay highlight two salvaged ancestral chairs, once owned by the artist’s great grandmother, Bessie Henson. Discovered in a building owned by Great-Grandmother Bessie, on the same land as Ligaya’s ancestral church and cemetery which has served as a resting place for her paternal ancestors since 1867 in Cecil, Alabama. These chairs represent a deep connection to heritage. Furthermore, there is a reflection on the theme of water and liberation in the American South, particularly focusing on the collective pursuit of freedom at the Alabama River on August 5, 2023, in Montgomery, Alabama.


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