What the Hand Remembers: Makers Talks

The Human Touch profiles the makers whose material thinking is increasingly important in our attempt to stay human.

This is the first in Garland’s new series of live online talks, bringing together makers whose work asks questions the rest of us are only beginning to articulate.

How can we be custodians of tradition when our “past is a foreign country”? Three makers have found ways to reconnect with their traditions while staying grounded in the contemporary world. Vipoo Srivilasa introduces the spirit of Thai animism to questions of contemporary identity. Pola Laamanen traces old Karelian embroidery motifs as whispers of the past. And Prashant Pandey moves from the family specialisation in marble to an ephemeral material of the street

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