Image of artist Trayein Duplessis sitting and drinking from a cup against a backdrop advertising her solo exhibition titled "Second Line Through My Mind."
"Second Line Through My Mind is a woven tapestry of ancestral healing alongside generational trauma, patterning and conditioning. It is a celebration after the grief of release. It is a love letter to the city that birthed and housed my ancestry and a tribute to the ways in which we celebrate through our hardest and darkest moments. Many women in the Duplessis/Marcelin family made a living out of sewing. Great aunts, grandmothers and great grandmothers. Bobbing and weaving. Maneuvering to join two things to make whole. Pieces take form in the sewing together of thoughts, emotions, feelings and desires. The body and mind are strung together through cathartic threads. Textures add depth and create stories. Garments create identity. Patterns serve as a guideline but can be altered to create something new."
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Born in 1993 in New Orleans, Duplessis found an affinity to working with textiles early in life. She began sewing at the age of seven after her grandmother bought her first pattern.
She has been on a journey to bridge together ancestral healing and cyclical behaviors with spools of thread in hopes to heal traumas by envisioning them outside the body. She works with patterns of fiber, textiles and patch-working to unwind the cyclical, genealogical and environmental patterning of her history.
Among her talents, Duplessis is the creator of the slow craft apothecary, For the Love of Us, that specializes in intentional essentials for your temple. From body butters, to tinctures, to essential oils, everything is made with intention, sat under the sun and moon for deep infusion and offered to the community. It is a labor of love created for the love of our people, our soil and our future.
Her intentional oils will be integrated into the opening ceremony on April 15. Join us for a multi sensory journey and celebrate the show with the artist and even enjoy some Creole made Gumbo.
She has been on a journey to bridge together ancestral healing and cyclical behaviors with spools of thread in hopes to heal traumas by envisioning them outside the body. She works with patterns of fiber, textiles and patch-working to unwind the cyclical, genealogical and environmental patterning of her history.
Among her talents, Duplessis is the creator of the slow craft apothecary, For the Love of Us, that specializes in intentional essentials for your temple. From body butters, to tinctures, to essential oils, everything is made with intention, sat under the sun and moon for deep infusion and offered to the community. It is a labor of love created for the love of our people, our soil and our future.
Her intentional oils will be integrated into the opening ceremony on April 15. Join us for a multi sensory journey and celebrate the show with the artist and even enjoy some Creole made Gumbo.
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Viewing by appointment Monday - Thursday 8 am - 3 pm
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