My Pocahontas

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mid-90s Pocahontas Nightgown, felt, .11 delica beads

Deconstructing and reconstructing the image of Disney’s Pocahontas. I cut out and gave away patches from my nightie, asking those who lovingly accepted to tag the image in their social media feeds to build a distorted, digital quilt of Pocahontas with the hashtags #mypocahontas #sagepaul.

Commissioned by Ditty Bag

For Craft Ontario

Sage Pal is cutting her well-worn, childhood nightie into patches. In this poignant act, she reconstructs the image of Pocahontas through tradition and technology as she beads the cloth fragments and sends them physically and digitally into the world.

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Sage Paul is an urban Dene woman and a member of the English River First Nation; she makes fashion, costume and craft. Sage champions family, sovereignty and resistance for balance.

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