Domingues, P., 2021.
Graticule
Output Type: | Journal article |
Publication: | Passage Journal |
Publisher: | Hasselt University |
ISBN/ISSN: | 2795-6644 |
Volume/Issue: | 1 (1) |
Pagination: | pp. 9-36 |
My practice traces lines between geological phenomena and transatlantic history. As a jewellery artist and a stone cutter, I focus on the properties and qualities of materials but also on their respective histories and the environments we cohabit with them.
The fractures and the cuts I consciously create in materials are performative gestures and intersections of the materials' stories and my own in the past and the present.
In this paper, while exploring a personal, fragmentary approach towards creative writing and revisiting family lineages, I will use an autoethnographic methodology to divagate between landscapes of union and disunion. I will embark on an interweaving of lines--my own, those of the material and of history--as a way of expanding my practice into a broader scene of ideas and events. From the boats docking in Lisbon during the fifteenth-century Portuguese colonial period, to the exploration of gemstones at German markets and my grandfather's abandoned notebooks, how do the lines of history translate into a sequence of performative gestures? Where does the past end and the present begin?
Keywords: Lines, Gemstones, Fracturing Practice, Intimate Writing, Landscapes
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