Ito Connections is a series of experimental weavings and sewings developed during TzuLi’s residency in Itoshima. The work explores how people, place, and culture intersect, and how these relationships can be translated into textile form. TzuLi spent the month observing the rhythms of the local environment—farmland, the sea, shrines, and daily life—and letting these impressions guide both the materials and the making.
For this series, TzuLi worked with elements drawn directly from the surroundings: hemp rope, grass, bamboo received from local resident, indigo, and fragments of vintage cloth. Combined with weaving and slow stitching, these unfamiliar materials allowed the pieces to grow in unexpected directions. Each small textile holds traces of these encounters, carrying the texture of both place and process.
Together, the work forms a quiet record of TzuLi’s time during the residency—diaries in woven form. They are her interpretation of the many connections in Itoshima: the land, the people, and the gentle conversations that emerged through making.
