Never-Drying Towels
This series of hand-woven towels is inspired by Lithuanian folk traditions. In the past, towels on hand-carved towel racks were representative of the family – the piece of fabric, which came with the bride’s dowry, was like an altar piece, reflecting the sacred nature of marriage. Nowadays, it would be farfetched to relate a towel drying on a ladder heater to anything other than its primary function, i.e. the constant cycle of wiping and drying. The notion of the family is also changing: it is no longer a silent, finite fabric but a constantly evolving, fluid organism.
2023
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M J
a towel from the dowry of a young woman building a life with her partner.
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K + R
a towel for a mother raising a son with disability.
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B + J
a towel for two women being denied legal recognition of their family.
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Images by Visvaldas Morkevičius