an offering...
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In our collective Behind The Seen’s ongoing project Recipes for Healing, the table runner transforms into an embodied fabric woven through memory, labor, and reciprocity.
Just as the nourishment of recipes carries ancestral knowledge and histories of migration, the layered and fragmented textiles in this project are a means of tactile and interactive storytelling, layered with stitched elements, words, and symbols recreated using reclaimed materials.
This fabric, created collectively, transforms into a living document of intersectional feminist practice, where the personal, communal and political are stitched together.
Meet Our Sculptors
Masala Chai Ingredients
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1 cup (250ml) water
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1 cup (250ml) whole milk (or any preferred milk)
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2 tsp loose black tea leaves (Assam or Darjeeling) or 2 tea bags
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2 tbsp sugar (adjust to taste)
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½ inch fresh ginger, crushed
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2-3 green cardamom pods, crushed
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1 small cinnamon stick (optional)
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2-3 cloves (optional)
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4-5 black peppercorns (optional)
behind the seen
Our collaboration is a project facilitating a gathering as a medium for storytelling, healing, nourishment and reclaiming histories. The gathering involves an immersive installation with a table setting encompassing shared and prepared recipes, meals, symbolism through color and tableware.
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Each location is chosen for its anti-colonial, reparative, spiritual, or personal significance, reinforcing themes of memory, heritage, and sustenance / resistance and regeneration.