Thursday, November 11, 2010

Artifact: Fabric Remnant



The slowly rising hills support a constructed system that influences and forms to the conditions. As the Mayans constructed their own landscapes, mountainous structures rise along that skyline, while platforms elevate articulated constructions. Valleys and plateaus are utilized to their potential for living and structure organization. The system of constructions and voids insinuate functionality and detail describes the culture of inhabitants.
The insight provided from detail is potent with ideas needed to construct a society. Preserved in a presumed sacrificial well, a fabric remnant was discovered. Due to the fragile nature of such a material, it is very rare to find such an artifact. It is a cotton piece, woven, brocaded, dyed. It is an irregular piece, frayed. However the brocaded pattern is still dense with fibers. The pattern illustrates a fraction of the pattern that originally existed across the whole clothing piece at one time.
The fabric piece will complete a larger garment. It will wrap itself gracefully and structurally around the client. Due to its location when found, the artifact must have belonged to a woman sacrificed and left in the well. The client was wearing the garment as a part of the last experience of life on Earth. It was a nicer garment of a lower woman in society. As the sacrifice, the woman chose to represent herself properly in this garment. The sacrifice would either, grant clemency or continue to rule the world in the minds of the Mayans. This garment was properly adorned by this woman in her time of accepting death as the sacrifice.
The construction would provide a confined reflection area, proper for self realization and concentration. Peripherally, a meeting area for a small groups will provide gathering space in support of the counsels’’ decision.

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