Sophia Lengle b. 1997 is a visual artist based in the Canadian Prairies

My studio is in ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ amiskwacîwâskahikan / Edmonton / Treaty 6 Territory & Métis Homeland

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My practice brings together narratives and processes based in the makeshift (i.e. fixing and affixing things creatively with limited resources), labour as occupying space/belonging, and personal sanctuary. This is consistent whether my compositions are created through weaving, painting or writing. Often, I work between these disciplines, for example: I bring the idea of tension and accumulation to the table when I approach compositions in painting. Or when I work with text, I am accompanied by the rhythms of weaving and the subconscious imagery I explore in painting.

I experience weaving as a process that allows vast mental space for dreaming while grounding me in my body. It is a self-imposed labour that grants me a sense of belonging within community, including the lineage of weavers that came before. I implement the makeshift in all the minute decisions that accumulate into cloth, but I am not weaving only to make cloth. I compose thread by thread and line by line, and this creates a surface that exist as process, tool and record.