This on-going, multi-year project began in 2006 as a work of remembrance, honoring the women and men killed as witches during the Witch Trial-Era. This project includes gathering of the real names and stories of lost lives, an expedition into our past (and too often present) of violence and fear-based persecution. Based on newly translated documentation of this history, my investigation into this fearful period is directed through a lens of gender theory, while also examining the connections between the Witch-Trial Era and the rise of capitalism and colonialism. Over the past seventeen years, this project has included installations, a memorial wall of names stitched onto a large tapestry ("The Shroud of Remembrance" - currently two 9’ x 4’ panels), and most importantly, hand-made poppets representing the individuals executed as “witches.”
This on-going, multi-year project began in 2006 as a work of remembrance, honoring the women and men killed as witches during the Witch Trial-Era. This project includes gathering of the real names and stories of lost lives, an expedition into our past (and too often present) of violence and fear-based persecution. Based on newly translated documentation of this history, my investigation into this fearful period is directed through a lens of gender theory, while also examining the connections between the Witch-Trial Era and the rise of capitalism and colonialism. Over the past seventeen years, this project has included installations, a memorial wall of names stitched onto a large tapestry ("The Shroud of Remembrance" - currently two 9’ x 4’ panels), and most importantly, hand-made poppets representing the individuals executed as “witches.”
