Our Lives Protecting Myth
Vilma Mare is an indigenous Baltic artist living in USA and Lithuania. She studies early folk heritage and exercises her native rites. Besides her major fashion design, she organises hand stitching circles to revive communal seedbed for interaction and education of indigenous symbols as wearable protection.
Vilma also creates sartorial art compositions in wool felt serving as wall tapestries or space partitions to tell the importance of Indigenous cultures today. After a thousand years of colonizing Christian politics finally the world acknowledged coherent values of Indigenous people who religiously continue to protect their environment. Now they redeem the Earth from ecological catastrophe. The sanctity of Nature testified by their ancestors in songs and stories are reviving as a cultural necessity. A protecting provision of Sacred Groves is of vital importance today.
The artist created work with a visible mytho-religious tree adoration, a surviving cult within some resistant folks till nowadays. Their protection is undertaken by many folktales including Egle Queen of Serpents to bring people back to Nature, where they essentially belong.
Vilma Mare’s goal is to emanate the eternal message about Man’s harmonious life in Nature. Her sartorial tapestry “Earth” is portraying a tree in colors of soil, all colors in one. It’s silhouette resembles a woman in a ritual dance step. Her skirt is the trunk and roots - deep, full and fertile. Her hands are spread towards the Sun, protecting life on and in the ground.
“Oak and Spruce”
Hand embroidered linen vestiment “Raganiuke”
Wool felt sartorial relief composition” Earth/Zeme”
Wool felt sartorial relief composition” Earth/Zeme”, detail