everyday utopia is a jacquard-woven blanket inspired by "a decolonial feminism" by François Vergès

The blanket features interlaced text that is read from opposite directions: "utopia a radical promise" from one vertical orientation, and "the not yet here" on the other. It explores and spatially represents Vergès' concept of multidimensionality—which challenges us to hold “several threads at once” by understanding phenomena's interconnections and their historical and social articulations—and performs it through the woven surface. Smaller action verbs and phrases spaced throughout the cloth prompt reflection on the question of liberation past, present, and future, a practice grounded in the body and within the everyday.

Yik Heng interpreted the digital design by Jacob Marcus and me, indexing graphic pixels into woven structures and form, and created this collaboration.

And it features body glyphs from Nat Pypers's Michiyo Fukaya font.