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Witches Marks

By  L C Persson 2020
Over the years (since 2014) I have researched witch-hunts, female knowledges, oppression on female gender and its connection to superstition and capitalism. These shapes are also an interpretation of the last breaths of Swedish Småländska women once tortured and killed (1550-1626). Each configurations refers to the silencing and eradication of these women's voices and lives. I wanted to make them stand tall one last time. A memory of all who those who have been here before us. Each shape is made from molten sand i.e. glass liquid handblown with glassblower Peter Kuchinke at the Glassfactory in Sweden, part of Småland. It's important for me to always connect geology, time and matter with contexts in making visual comments on past or future ideas and systems. The markings acts as scars and are so called witches marks or apotropaic marks, once used to scare off witches and evil. However these symbols are much older by some 4000 years. They derive from Egypt and was markings for good luck or against evil. I wanted to re-appropriate these once again, and give protection and strength for these women as they are remembered and ushered on, away from earthly bounds.

Anders Bergön

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