Nika McKagen

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Nika McKagen

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Virginia (there your name was)
2024
3’x5’ tencel, nylon, cotton, and polyester handwoven on TC2 digital loom, handmade rose petal beads

my mother and i hand-made rose petal beads using hundreds (ten years’ worth) of decaying red roses that were too fragile to cross state lines

eighty hours spent hand weaving, unweaving, and beading in an attempt to translate the temporal disintegration of a silver gelatin photograph to a textile

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on view in Backspace Gallery, Madison WI in fall 2024 + Textile Center of Madison in spring 2025





Cerberus
2025
1.5’x3.5’ cotton, tencel, and paper weaving -

a mildly shamed and confessional piece that you kinda gotta get the right angle on to be able to read. text is from photobook Karst.



Rainer Maria Rilke tote bags





Karst blankets (available for purchase <3)