Weftles
2024
These bottles are highly cherished as they are said to hold a hair from the Weaver. While their content remains unsubstantiated, there are diverse and colourful accounts of the trials undertaken to collect this hair and the transformation required to move between the invisible to Earthly plains. The passage is akin to many of the world’s mythologies, sometimes referred to as the ‘Hero’s Journey’.
It is unknown whether the bottles and their contents are used in any specific way or just as gentle reminders of the omnipresent actions of the Weaver; the ongoing creation of all the interlocking patterns of the planet.
hand-blown and found glass, wax, silvered
Made with Griffyn McGarry Purdie during ‘designer in residence’ at Canberra Glassworks 2024. Complete project acknowledgement here.
From MYTHICA IGNOTA Artefacts of the Oscillocene and Warawana Mythologies
Photographer Pew Pew Studio and Brenton McGeachie courtesy of Canberra Glassworks
