Weaver’s cloak (ceremonial)
2024

A ceremonial cloak used as part of a ritual dance that honours Weaver's formation of the world and the ongoing creation of pattern through matter. 

Weaver exists within the mythic and Earthly plains, expressed in the latter through pollinating patterns, most commonly birds and flowers. 

Weaver is one of the central mythic-entities or forces of Warawana mythology. 

The joining shape is the weaver, the connector. It is an action, a movement, a network.

A trillion life forms, all existing in each other’s midst. Each pattern built on, with, and alongside every other.

A bird lands on a flower, hovers there, taking a drink of its nectar. The bird flies along to the next flower, carrying a little of the first flower’s pollen with it. One simple act of connection and exchange. The universe is made up of actions just like it. You and I, the bird and the flower, the ocean and the atmosphere. Material, ongoing exchange. We are made of actions, movements, connections. 

Excerpt from ‘A Compendium of the Oscillocene’

Fibre, mesh
90 x 125 x 15mm 

From MYTHICA IGNOTA Artefacts of the Oscillocene and Warawana Mythologies

Designing Mythology is a questioning and proposal for old ways / new to exist as humans, using the process of 'mything' to reorientate back towards the planet, and recalibrate our value systems by dismantling the current shadow metaphors of the Western-colonial worldview. It proposes the restorying of scientific perspectives to offer a cosmology that includes humans as part of the living world whilst simultaneously removing us from the centre. Thus a recognition and return, via a circuitous route, to the worldviews, deep connection and sustainment of the first peoples of our planet.

Photographer Pew Pew Studio and Brenton McGeachie courtesy of Canberra Glassworks