Archiving as Interconnectedness

Written By Abigail Doan

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This quote from author, physicist, systems theorist and deep ecologist, Fritjof Capra, summarizes the spirit of the Lost in Fiber library ‘archiving’ system. That is, finding connection and interrelatedness via intuitive visual threads and pathways.

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

[ featured books/works: Anni Albers: Notebook 1970–1980 (David Zwirner Books); Interwoven: Diana Scherer (Jap Sam Books); Michelle Stuart: Drawn from Nature (Hatje Cantz) | photo: Abigail Doan studio ]

Abigail Doan

Abigail Doan is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer focused on cultural and environmental preservation. Her studio's materials and objects serve as an archive of forms that can be documented and utilized in adaptable, site-specific ways. Fiber/cloth, paper artifacts, and sculpted biological and geological specimens coexist with her photographic recordings of ideas about loss, memory, and resilience.

http://www.abigaildoan.com
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