Beadwork as Language
Every bead
is a sentence.
Two centuries of glass beads strung by hand into chevron, diamond, and parallelogram — a private color-coded grammar of love, fidelity, and loss.
Redpassion, heartbreak
Bluefidelity, the dove
Yellowwealth, the sun
Greenjealousy, new pasture
Whitepurity, the bone
Blacksorrow, marriage
Isigege · Courting-Apron Pattern
Red speaks of love. Blue, of fidelity. The pattern is the ucu — a letter without words.