Cord-Maker
Shanti Cordoni-Jordan
See it On Campus: Level 2
MOEC Zone 1
Visitor InfoThe fabrication of textiles, drawing, and identity share a quality of accumulation. Knitting threads into sweaters; tracing lines into pictures; making memories into stories; weaving connections into webs. Though these accumulations reflect repetition, they may also reflect a quality of brokenness or fragmentation.
Cord-Maker is an exploration of the connections between thread, identity, lineage, and textiles.
Through the repetitive processes of drawing and printmaking, I wish to emulate the repetitive labour of textile-making, honouring my lineages and particularly the generations of women who gave their skill and time to the craft of textiles.
I am curious about the non-linear and tangled threads of time that live within and around us. How do these threads connect us with past versions of ourselves, our ancestors, and others before us?
Cord, graphite, etching on washi paper, thread, 2025
Sweater, etching, 2025
Print Works: Etching
a fledgling finds her wings, etching, aquatint, soft ground, chine collé, 2024
On growing one’s wings, transformations, and journeys.
winter, etching & aquatint, 2022
children of the sun and the moon, etching & aquatint, 2023
An edition of Christmas cards I made for family and friends, inspired by winter’s patterns, shapes, and colours.
This etching was inspired by the lyrics: “stare at the stars, they’re the children of the sun and the moon,” by local folk group Po’Girl.
Print Works: Linocut
Fruit, linocut & chine collé, 2024
Observing the cycles around us, noticing how we all experience our own seasons, births, and rebirths.
kiss myself, linocut, 2022
Made by commission for my dear friend and musician, Aylah Jovanovski, for her song titled “kiss myself.”
Graphite Drawings
Willow, graphite on paper, 2023
Depicting the bark of a willow tree, this drawing is the result of a two-month field study project conducted at Trout Lake park.
Quilt I & Quilt II, graphite on paper, 2023
The layering of memories and the stories told by quilts.
Memories collected under a hot Nelson sun, graphite on paper, 2021
& above the roots below.
