Incited by ‘distance and absence’

“White Elephants, Gajasimhas and Buildings” (visuals drawn by students in Cambodia, silk threads, printed and woven), by Linda Sok, in her show “Linda Sok: Warped Archive’’ at the Brattleboro, Vt., Museum and Arts Center, July 11-Nov. 1.

Sok says she "engages with French-colonial documentation of disappeared textiles at the National Museum of Cambodia ... [to] imagine new designs for contemporary tapestries….Distance and absence become inciting moments; my practice emerges as acts of weaving, rituals, and translations of physical materials.’’