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Photo: Oki sobaraCentral Java, Indonesia · material knowledge
Central Java, Indonesia. A morning glass begins with women’s work, but the story also holds grief, friendship, independence, and the wish to give a daughter something useful.
Photo: Betto ArcosPacific coast, Colombia · sound invention
Colombia’s Pacific coast. Eryen Korath chose the marimba because she liked its sound. The life she built around it opens a larger story about pleasure, permission, and who gets heard.
Photo: SalmonnegroSumpango, Guatemala · ritual belonging
Sumpango, Guatemala. Sara Xicón’s kite-making collective brings generations of women together around a fragile object, a public message, and a demanding promise to return.
Photo: Ruth BookmanTonga and its diaspora · ritual belonging
Tonga and its diaspora. A grandmother’s cloth, a child’s birthday gift, and a mother-daughter collaboration show how ngatu carries family relationships across generations and oceans.
Photo: Vincenzo Paterno'Tripoli, Lebanon · craft economies
Tripoli, Lebanon. In the city’s soap workshops, time is an ingredient, a financial burden, and part of what one generation hopes to leave the next.
Teotitlán del Valle, Mexico · Making & inheritance
In Oaxaca’s Zapotec weaving traditions, color carries knowledge of land, family, and material. Keeping that knowledge alive also means finding new things to say with it.
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