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Once among those women who were called witches there was a practice of braiding and knotting threads or hair together to make a long rope into which feathers were woven at intervals. At each feather-knotting, a spell was made, and so became the Witch’s Ladder - an uncanny thing, a folk magic device about which not much is known, but much is guessed. We look back with horror upon the witchtimes when women were burnt alive and made to wear iron torture devices to prevent them from speaking as blessedly far-off and past, yet we are still living an age when women are killed, raped, bound, and prevented from speaking. I do not speak in hyperbole, though we mostly stop ourselves from making any comparisons. But those witchtimes also court us with an alluringly old familiarity, which we cannot name, something that speaks to a memory of women in togetherness and in power, and which calls to a flame in us that never really went out.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Rima Staines is an artist whose work straddles myth, magical realism and the folk arts. She has worked over the years predominantly as a painter, but also with music, writing, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, theatre, puppetry, animation and book arts. In 2018 she was a finalist in the 'Best Artist' category of the World Fantasy awards. She is a mother to two young sons and lives in Devon. Rima has a long-held fascination with the idea of the liminal - that which lies at the edge of culture and society as well as the literal boundaries between one place and another, both metaphorical and real - and with the power of art that comes from that place. Her work is a kind of “Iconography of the Otherworld”. Fascinated by how talismanic, apotropaic imagery has been used throughout human history to make real magic, she has a strong belief in the power of art to change things, and thus her work is simultaneously alchemy and activism. Stories, too, play a fundamental role in Rima’s work - she believes that they speak truth to us in a similar non-linear language to that which imagery speaks, and that we need them more than we think we do: inside them are old maps back home. www.rimastaines.com
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