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Personal mal-flourishing: Who decides?

Wool tapestry
Credits: Rachel Green (artist/researcher)

Creating this tapestry allowed Rachel to explore how data can be represented through tapestry, using her own life as data. Using different colours to express different life events and experiences, Rachel wove each year of her life into this piece.

Each colour represents a different type of experience:

  • Stress/chaos (red)
  • Loss (black)
  • Children (green)
  • Can’t remember (blue or grey)
  • Awkward (purple)
  • Relationships (pink)
  • Hot summer of 76 (yellow)

This led Rachel to question how limited a view this gave of her own life. And if her own story couldn’t be adequately represented through colour coding, can community experiences be represented in this way?

Our collaboration with the Ripple

The communities of Lochend, Restalrig and Craigentinny, together with the Ripple Project and the Binks Hub, have created a series of artworks exploring the memories, experiences, realities, hopes and dreams of the local community.

Learn more about our collaboration here.

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