{"id":18416,"date":"2021-03-16T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=18416"},"modified":"2021-04-21T22:54:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T03:54:56","slug":"the-warp-weft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2021\/03\/16\/the-warp-weft-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Warp &#038; Weft &#8211; Third Set of Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>4 new warp &amp; weft stories today including one from kashmir by Akmal Hanan, one about post world war II germany from ireland by Renate Debrun, a powerful poem by Selena Fleming, a raw, courageous story by Annette Ramos, and a beautiful dance response by Alaina Olivieri. pls listen and watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maraahmedstudio.com\/category\/warpweft\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/><br \/>Repost from Rochester Contemporary Art Center:<br \/><br \/>Today the third set of stories from the Warp &amp; Weft archive launch! Head over to maraahmedstudio.com and listen to:<br \/><br \/><strong>Because Every Goliath Meets Its David by Selena Fleming<\/strong><br \/>I\u2019m fresh off the boat\u2014the one fashioned from ramparts of a journey laden with trauma, ugly-fulfilling prophecies, can\u2019t-get-it-together tendencies and shoulders that have borne more than any one person should ever be allowed to bear.<br \/><br \/><strong>If Mountains Were Oceans by Akmal Hanan<\/strong><br \/>The world has seven continents and more than 190 countries, but destiny decreed that I was born in a landlocked country called Kashmir. [Photo: Shahnawaz Shah]<br \/><br \/><strong>COVID Rebirth by Annette Ramos<\/strong><br \/>Two years before COVID-19 spread around the world I was already facing one of the biggest challenges of my life. My creative life was in transformation.<br \/><br \/><strong>Gertrud by Renate Debrun<\/strong><br \/>In old family photographs I sometimes catch a glimpse of her: a stolid, middle-aged woman always in the background or at the margins. All that remains of her life now is in a small cardboard box in my sister&#8217;s attic: some papers, postcards, photographs, a bible. This is Gertrud. [Photo: Raymond Deane]<br \/><br \/><strong>Empty Spaces by Alaina Olivieri<\/strong>: A dance response to the archive<br \/><br \/>Listen to\/read the full stories at maraahmedstudio.com<br \/>The Warp &amp; Weft is a multilingual archive of stories that seeks to capture the 2020 zeitgeist. The archive is curated by interdisciplinary artist and activist filmmaker Mara Ahmed (@mara__ahmed). A set of new stories will be released each week via RoCo and Mara\u2019s social media, during the course of \u2018Last Year on Earth.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/161392183_10221900401031566_2521760309809077074_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/161392183_10221900401031566_2521760309809077074_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/161392183_10221900401031566_2521760309809077074_o.jpg 526w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/161392183_10221900401031566_2521760309809077074_o-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/161392183_10221900401031566_2521760309809077074_o-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 new warp &amp; weft stories today including one from kashmir by Akmal Hanan, one about post world war II germany from ireland by Renate Debrun, a powerful poem by Selena Fleming, a raw, courageous story by Annette Ramos, and a beautiful dance response by Alaina Olivieri. pls listen and watch here. Repost from Rochester &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2021\/03\/16\/the-warp-weft-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Warp &#038; Weft &#8211; Third Set of Stories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,15,14,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18416"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18496,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18416\/revisions\/18496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}