Sarah Sousa is a poet and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of the poetry collections See the Wolf, named a 2019 ‘Must Read’ book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, Split the Crow and Church of Needles, as well as the chapbooks Yell, which won the Summer Tide Pool Prize at C&R Press, and Hex which won the Cow Creek Chapbook Prize. Her poems have appeared in the Massachusetts Review, North American Review, the Southern Poetry Review, Verse Daily among others. Her collage/visual poetry has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Matter Press and New Delta Review. Honors include a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. Check out her poetry website at www.sarahasousa.com
Weave, Twine, Dye, Spin, Stitch
I work with natural and foraged materials as well as man-made reclaimed materials (fisherman’s rope, net, found cloth, plastic rosary beads). I employ, and push the boundaries of, traditional techniques like weaving, stitching, spinning, wrapping, twining and natural dying to create useful, decorative, and art objects. I’m continuously exploring the artistic possibilities of cellulose (plant-based) as standalone material in weaving, stitching, paper-making and papier mache, as well as in combination with other natural materials like wool and vintage textiles, text (my own and found), and man-made materials which often linger in our environment as trash. The process of collecting grasses, weeds, fronds, lichens, roots and other flora for use in both the botanic dying process and finished product is at the heart of my work.
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