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This photo-weaving is from ‘Power Lines’, a series begun during a 2019 fellowship at the British Library in London. To make the work, Sense weaves British colonial maps of the Eastern US with her own landscape photographs. She uses Native basket weaving techniques passed down through generations of her family, reflecting the resistance and resilience of Indigenous American communities. For Sense, the act of combining old and new materials through Native weaving patterns “re-indigenises the landscapes whilst decolonising maps”.","physicalDescription":"Thin strips of manipulated colour photographs of landscapes interwoven with prints of colonial-era maps. 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She uses Chitimacha basket weaving techniques passed down through generations of her family, reflecting the resistance and resilience of Native communities. For Sense, the act of combining old and new materials through traditional weaving patterns reclaims landscapes and challenges colonial perspectives.\n\nWoven archival inkjet prints\r\nMuseum no. PH.440-2024\n\r\nPurchase funded by the V&amp;A Photographs Acquisition Group","date":{"text":"2025","earliest":"2025-01-01","latest":"2025-12-31"}},{"text":"Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage by Fiona Rogers (V&A publishing, spring 2026)\r\n\r\nUsing traditional Indigenous American basket-weaving techniques inherited through her Choctaw and Chitimacha family, Sarah Sense’s Power Lines draws on the extensive collection of maps, manuscripts and rare books held in London’s British Library, to reengage with Britain’s role in the displacement of Indigenous American peoples and in land degradation. Sense’s series weaves together archival material with her own landscape photographs, creating physical matrices that merge histories, time periods and experiences. Her artworks illustrate the arbitrary nature of ever-changing borders, or ‘power lines’, that support ancestral land claims and the marginalization of Indigenous communities. In their defiance and inherited construction, the works are emblematic of resilience and resistance. ","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["PH.440-2024"],"accessionNumberNum":"440","accessionNumberPrefix":"PH","accessionYear":2024,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-13","recordCreationDate":"2024-01-24","availableToBook":false}}