“my practice as a photographer covers many different themes, but its unifying element is a commitment to conveying essence.”
Suzu / woven wares
Hello, I am Suzuna, often called Suzu as well.
I was born and raised on the island of Okinawa - in sunshine, oceanic air (include many typhoons) and deep mysticism, which is beating the heart of what I am.
My current locality is Victoria on Vancouver Island, also abundant in salty air and presence of nature - where by chance I met a friendly weaver who showed me how to weave, and so it began a weaver’s story.
As I weave on, air/space became my main medium. For me the choice of fibre creates the ‘bones’ while the ‘flow’ of cloth is created by the space/air woven between threads. I often say I am weaving air, and in that space also lives my intention for every cloth; something that speaks for itself and becomes beautiful in our hands. Often an amulet for protections and many blessings.
I thank you kindly for your attention to my heart in words.
may we all be blessed with handwoven loves xx
suzu
Megan Samms (they/she) is an L’nu and Nlha7kápmx visual artist, emerging Ancestral Skin Marker, Indigenous agriculturalist, beekeeper, and community worker who, drawing from her varied practices, works collaboratively with mediums to articulate story, messages, and continued dialogue within their respective historic and contemporary place-based contexts. She’s known for weaving and natural dye work, but uses photo, and performance interventions to remember and triangulate entangled presence and relationality with place and time.