It does indeed have to do with healing.
A short note I wrote to myself as I was discussing the building and installation of the Infinite Intimate and the Templum with my mother, who lives in California.
It does indeed have to do with healing, and it started with violence against women, and then it expanded to include any patriarchal subjugation and the collective wound we carry as women. Now as I continue to explore it, it has to do more with my own personal embodied experience of being cut apart and sewn back together dozens of times as I broke bones, or grew things that weren’t supposed to grow, and of the intense growth hand healing from that Big trauma in my life.
This May, we figured out why I have been bed-bound for the last six years. Five months later, I’m healthy again. Like the previous six years of nearly dying didn’t even happen. I’m thinking of the stitch as a suture, a bringing together: a healing. This creates scar tissue, ungainly, lumpy, beautiful string, unique, resilient scar tissue.
This is our power, the ability to stand in our fear, and remain whole, and strong. To know we can, so we continue to gain agency over our history, legacies, and the language and expectations we pass down to one another.
It is something POSITIVE we can DO. We can work toward changing the way the story goes in the future by being open with each other in the now, by seeing the collective burden and letting it unite us, by looking for bias and rooting it out, by questioning the limits of the choices we are allowed to make. We can make our emotional and psychic bodies whole - together.
