I still sick but I went for a long walk to a nice bakery for coffee // after I’m going to visit a friend and go to the fine arts library // I’m getting excited and serious about studying again but not talking to people about it yet
everything is moving very fast // I have to quit my job over the phone in 40 minutes // going to the doctors now
The last surviving sea silk seamstress
“My grandmother wove in me a tapestry that was impossible to unwind,” Vigo said. “Since then, I’ve dedicated my life to the sea, just as those who have come before me.”
Like the 23 women before her, Vigo has never made a penny from her work. She is bound by a sacred ‘Sea Oath’ that maintains that byssus should never be bought or sold.
Instead, Vigo explained that the only way to receive byssus is as a gift. […]
“Byssus doesn’t belong to me, but to everyone,” Vigo asserted. “Selling it would be like trying to profit from the sun or the tides.”
More recently, a Japanese businessman approached Vigo with an offer to purchase her most famous piece, ‘The Lion of Women’, for €2.5 million. It took Vigo four years to stitch the glimmering 45x45cm design with her fingernails, and she dedicated it to women everywhere.
“I told him, ‘Absolutely not’,” she declared. “The women of the world are not for sale.”
reading agua viva at work // going to walk home through the reserve and clean the house after // trying to consider my options, masters maybe or study something different ?? I can’t keep working in my new job I know it’s a bad fit already
I feel ugly and immobilised about what to do
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