User:EdgarSchwarzwald/Xenobia Bailey

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Bailey's work strives to create a textile culture and aesthetic that African Americans were unable to develop because of slavery and reconstruction.

Bailey crocheted the design for the mosaic; the Miotto Mosaic Art Studio then digitized it and translated it into the final mosaic.

In an experimental collaboration sponsored by the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the MIT Media Lab, Bailey crocheted with electroluminescent wire.

Visually her work draws upon the Kongo Cosmogram, or Yowa, a symbol important to Kongo metaphysics and spiritual ceremonies.