Yet, in looking at stone tools and metal weapons, massive farms and factory products, we overlook more perishable material-items which rarely survive the vicissitudes of time.īy at least 40,000 years ago, early humans had twisted together fibers to create string, crafting a labor-saving tool that greatly enhanced one’s odds of survival. Great leaps forward are deemed revolutions, fundamentally re-ordering society: the Agricultural Revolution gave rise to cities, the military, and patriarchy the Industrial Revolution exacerbated division between social classes, demanded consumer capitalism, and heightened climate change. Humanity’s progress has often been marked by humans’ relationship to labor and raw material: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age. Artists Duncan Hewitt, Hannah Adams, and Isabelle O’Donnell use textile as an expressive form or subject, allowing reflection on the ways in which the history of the textile industry informs material culture and continues to inform daily life. “String Revolution: Textile and Visual Artifact” combines several parallel but distinct imaginative paths involving the history, construction, and use of textiles.
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