Thread (n.)

• Fine cord of a fibrous material; used in needlework
• a thin seam, vein, or fissure filled with ore [natural rock or sediment containing one or more valuable minerals]
• something continuous or drawn out
• a method of styling hair indigenous to the African continent

Thread (v.)

• intransitive verb: To connect by running a thread through; string.
• intransitive verb: To make one's way cautiously through.
• intransitive verb: To occur here and there throughout; pervade.

Threadings. (n.) | proper noun

An ether-space stitched together by/from the webbings of ismatu gwendolyn.

ismatu (n.)

• Feminine conjugation of the name Ishmael (إسماعيل | יִשְׁמָעֵאל), first son of Abraham.
• Literal translation: God hears.

Etymologies: Common Krio, naming convention local to Sierra Leone

ismatu gwendolyn (n.) | proper noun

• artist in physical and auditory format (poetics [verbal + written], photographics [capturer and muse], essayist)
• public-facing scholar, educating within their academic disciplines | degreed with:
  • two bachelors of arts from Northwestern University in English and Global Health Studies
  • one master’s of arts in Clinical Social Work with a concentration in Global Health Administration and Policy
• sovereign and acting direct descendent of Paramount Chief Bombolai, of the Limba Tribe in Sierra Leone

WITH THESE DEFINITIONS IN MIND:

ismatu gwendolyn creates Threadings. across written, auditory, and visual comprehensions in order to join and shape this world, engineered, from their lens and for the good of their collected masses.