Main description

In Bulgarian language, the word 'culture' comes from the Latin cultura or colo/colere and means education, development, cultivation, preservation. The process of culturizing is the foundation of human kind's development and is a sign of a community's evolution. It is an act of recognition and inclusion of the unknown and is always an act of overcoming of the opposition: nature - culture. Therefore, namely this act results in favour of man and his daily life. Regarding textile, this process is being manifested through the transition of a wild, natural product into a ductile, able to be treated material, from which to be produced a completed handiwork - thread, fabric, cloth. First, there must be found an object from the surrounding environment, which needs to pass through the process of almost complete destruction. Then, comes the next step: the process of creating something new - derivative. Symbolically, the culturizing itself personifies (manifests) our ancestors' view over the eternal life of the Soul whose aim is to become more developed and clean with each next reincarnation. The same is the principle of the culturizing itself, namely: life-death-life. In my work "In the beginning was the Word", I represent the relation between the cultural inheritance and the evolution, which actually originates from the will of the past. My work is an eight meter-long fabric with the word Bulgaria written in Glagolitsa alphabet. It carries the spirit of the past through the use of not entirely treated textile materials and through our old alphabet that is no longer used in Bulgaria. Later, this process reached a point where this fabric was deformed and then transformed/turned into clothes. Namely, this is the process of culturizing - bringing to life a piece of a past era. Key words: culture, culturizing, process, textile, fabric.