{"id":8467,"date":"2022-06-22T17:50:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=8467"},"modified":"2022-06-23T07:25:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T07:25:59","slug":"simone-elizabeth-saunders-vibrant-textile-art-emanates-black-femininity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/simone-elizabeth-saunders-vibrant-textile-art-emanates-black-femininity\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Elizabeth Saunders\u2019 Vibrant Textile Art Emanates Black Femininity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8468\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Untitled-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Untitled-1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Untitled-1-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Untitled-1-220x150.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Simone Elizabeth Saunders<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Simone Elizabeth Saunders is a Jamaican-Canadian textile artist that utilizes rug-making techniques and a tufting machine to create her opulent and colorful portrait art. Saunders\u2019 work features prominent motifs from her Jamaican heritage and serves as a statement of power being reclaimed from oppression.&nbsp; Through her portraits, she further elevates narratives of Black joy and resilience.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/saunders-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"538\" title=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 889px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 889\/538;\"><figcaption><strong><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">The Four Queens at Contemporary Calgary (2022)<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/saunders-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"897\" height=\"594\" title=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 897px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 897\/594;\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Her textiles exude the themes of Black femininity, beauty, and womanhood, as shown in <em>The Four Queens<\/em> series. \u201cBlack Power,\u201d \u201cBlack Dreams,\u201d \u201cBlack Magic,\u201d and \u201cBlack Love\u201d presents four individualistic Black women sitting confidently in their power and grace, with exquisite scenes of color and pattern functioning as their backdrop. As revealed in the close up,&nbsp; Saunders\u2019 attention to color placement and detail is what creates such stunning, vivid, and dynamic imagery.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/saunders-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"647\" title=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 862px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 862\/647;\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/saunders-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"861\" height=\"1076\" title=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 861px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 861\/1076;\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cI celebrate the wins. I know the darkness in this world, so do you. It can drag us down. And when I post, positive messaging is key for me. To share light and love and to look at the world as vibrant and colourful as it can be\u2026.It\u2019s reflected in my textiles, to uplift narratives often tethered to dark undertones, with the gift of bright hues. I\u2019m not asking anyone to \u201csmile\u201d, because life will hurt. But hold onto your light\u2026 keep grasp of your love,\u201d wrote Saunders on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/simoneelizabethtextiles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Saunders\u2019 work has been featured in exhibitions such as the Minneapolis Art Institute, North Carolina\u2019s Mint Museum, Contemporary Calgary, the Alberta Craft Council for the Arts, and Art Museum University of Toronto. To stay up to date with upcoming exhibitions, please visit her website at <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/simoneelizabethsaunders.com.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>simoneelizabethsaunders.com<\/strong><\/a><strong> or via Instagram <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/simoneelizabethtextiles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>@simoneelizabethtextiles<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>The artist feature for Simone Elizabeth Saunders was originally published on Colossal. View their publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2022\/06\/simone-saunders-fiber-portraits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Elizabeth Saunders is a Jamaican-Canadian textile artist that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}