Shaya Ishaq

A BOUNDLESS LOVE

In this piece, I expand upon my practice as a weaver and writer in an experimental video work where my tapestries exist and thrive in a sacred and speculative realm of their own. This work that pays homage to my Lugbara and Nubi lineage of matriarchs and weavers is a window into an astral plane where ancestral connections and embodied knowledge meet.

A boundless love is a follow up to Elegy for a matriarch whose spirit pulses through soil and rises with the sun, eternally that speaks of grief and the temporal dimensions it opens, ritual, rites of passage, and love as a generative force in the wake of loss. It is often said that grief is love with nowhere to go but in this piece, I am reaching towards a way out and through into a space where that love is boundless. Where love itself is a space for interconnected spirits to coexist and express the impossible. In contrast to the previous work, this newer piece gave me the opportunity to experiment with video, poetry and sound art that features the voices of my family in Kampala, Uganda recorded during my visit home in moments of communion.