September 11, 2022

102 Harriet Goodall - Weaving a connection to landscape without ownership

1 hour 3 minutes

Discovering the value of craft in her early 20's led Harriet towards the natural dye revolution, forming her pathway into weaving. “I took a one day class in basketry & haven't had another job since ” As a talented weaver, Harriet now believes everyone can & should be creative. She shares the joys & challenges of delineating between a job and a creative passion and talks of our primal attraction to hand made things because of the energy &^ essence the otherwise inanimate object has. Join us in this conversation of 'communal remembering of weavery' and perhaps you too will make "can you pull over" your most said phrase.

Show notes
Her first heartbreak when they had to leave her childhood home
Rebuilding her identity
Building a ‘good life’ as renters
Contemplation of life on the trading cycle rather than a money oriented one
Falling in love with fabrics and traditional village life
Buying beanies as their first enterprise
Her early adult years running an ethical trade business
Iconography stories in weavings
Weaving - a really easy way to be connected to nature
Foraging, connecting to seasons, learning the way of the land and getting her hands in it
“It’s a long relationship you have with your creativity, it ebbs and flows, it comes with you, sometimes it’s working but sometimes it's incredibly challenging”
Mastering something is a fraught concept - there are always more angles to be explored.
Honoring her Dad by using materials from a fallen tree on his property to create a table for her family.
Passing objects of meaning from one generation to the next along with knowledge
Why her ‘voice’ is defined by her creativity
A drive towards beauty for beauty's sake gives her hope.
Her Dads curiosity - “can this beauty be an accident or is there something more powerful than all of us.
Why art is a disciplined practice
The practice of weaving is an ancient memory - before agriculture even. It had a functional purpose
Her ache to sit at the feet of those who are willing to teach the scholarship of basketry
The communal remembering of basket weavery
The double edged sword of using technology to share traditional skills
The magic of weaving to crack open emotional connectedness and vulnerability
Workshop junkies who adore the emotional release of the art
Exploring the potential of a new material; hairy panic is her latest material
The tactility of weaving - you can’t imagine it into being you have to get your hands in
It opens your eyes to the seasons and the changes in the landscape
Planting a weaving garden or a dye garden
The hypocrisy of travelling
Rewriting factory production by buying direct from fair trade craftsman
There's no machine to make a basket - if its cheap, what were the conditions of the person who made it.
Every decision you make requires us to be awake to the impact that decision has.
Try not to buy things just because they are cheap
Mutual reciprocity and obligation
Hosting a street party in rural communities