By Micaela Kaibni Raen
"I want to thank our grandmothers for leaving this full, rich, emotional and visionary legacy. A legacy of traditions, family, culture and identity. A legacy of hope and land stitched in Palestinian Tatreez."
"I am so grateful to the Palestinian Tatreez Artists from yesterday, today, and tomorrow. They are the true archivists of our herstory, history, identity, and culture. With each stitch they lay guide us on our path and design a new future for us."
"Wearing, creating, and working with Palestinian Tatreez is a powerful remembrance and way
to connect with our ancestors, our communities and ourselves."
“I enjoy connecting through poetry and sharing ideas, stories, experiences and cultures. I am excited about visual poetics and its ability to create conversations. I want to share the story behind the creation of my art. I want the reader to become part of my story as much as I want to become part of theirs.”
“Food,
or the making of food, is often an inspiration for my work. It is just amazing
how many Palestinian women before me have rolled grape leaves the same way...slowly and
carefully one by one...with the same shared spirit...and with great care...nourishing family and poetry alike."
"In order to change our
future, there needs to be a global revolution in thinking on every side of colonization, occupation and return. The children need our voices."
"As human rights
advocates, we cannot let the threat of violence deter us from our message;
especially those of us speaking out about the human rights of Queer/Trans people
living here and abroad. Our combined voices and art can lead the
way to freedom for our communities."
"Palestinian Tatreez is a powerful remembrance, a symbol of profound beauty and resistance. Tatreez tells the story of our land and the women that gave birth to it...and to us…through mapping our herstory/history on textiles, Tatreez innovates a collective path for our future."
"Palestinian Tatreez is our cultural inheritance…it holds our grandmothers’ dreams and love as well as the spirit of the people and land from which it was born."
