Corporeal historiographies
by hijadelacoca
(noun, plural; textile field):
Embroidered narratives on the body, where scars, marks, and tissues are transformed into archival records. A method of historiography that departs from grand narratives, favoring intimate and material traces —embroidery, stitching, and bodily lines—as forms of writing. It draws from the cartography of the body as a site of inscription, mapping memories onto the skin, where each textile intervention functions as a sensitive archive. Corporeal historiographies weave personal and collective memories into manuscripts constructed in flesh and fabric.
Embroidered narratives on the body, where scars, marks, and tissues are transformed into archival records. A method of historiography that departs from grand narratives, favoring intimate and material traces —embroidery, stitching, and bodily lines—as forms of writing. It draws from the cartography of the body as a site of inscription, mapping memories onto the skin, where each textile intervention functions as a sensitive archive. Corporeal historiographies weave personal and collective memories into manuscripts constructed in flesh and fabric.