The Needle as Medium: Using Embroidery to Speak to Ghosts
As an adoptee, I am haunted by what Lifton (2009) calls the Ghost Kingdom, a place filled with the spectres of the ancestors I have been disconnected from. Derrida (1993), with his notion of hauntology, tells us that we must learn to speak to ghosts, and that by doing so we will learn to live. I am...
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University of Alberta
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Art/Research International |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29407 |