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Blue Magic

Blue Magic

Artist

Zipporah Camille Thompson

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Description

This installation of layered blue nets—constructed from ribbon, found, and upcycled materials—draws on Carolina coastal traditions of labor, love, and survival, where hands lift, knot, mend, and carry futures forward. The net operates both physically and symbolically: a structure of fecundity and fruitfulness, bringing things into being while holding them in suspension. Fluid, pliant, and resilient, the work evokes buoyancy and flight as much as safety and containment, echoing cargo nets, stained glass, and mosaics built from accumulated care. Magic enters through alchemy and naming—where objects stand in for bodies, labor becomes liberation, and what is cast out or thrown away is transformed into something newly usable, even luminous. The piece honors love as a form of work, and work as a form of love, insisting that what we lift together can become lighter, stronger, and more alive.
Medium

constructed from ribbon, found, and upcycled materials
Dimensions

10’H x 4.5’W x 20”D
Shipping & Production Time

Each piece in our collection is crafted individually with care and intention. Because we focus on ethical, sustainable production, items are made-to-order or in very limited quantities.

Please allow 7–14 business days for production before shipping.

We believe that slow is good, your patience supports responsible creation, one-of-a-kind artistry, and quality craftsmanship.

Once your item ships, you will receive a tracking number so you can follow its journey.
About the Maker

Meet Zipporah Camille Thompson

Atlanta, NYC

Drawing upon ancestral traditions and techniques using clay and fiber, I weave nets, baskets, and tapestries by hand to study light and shadow and invoke possibility, chance and magic. Referencing mythology and overlaid with the sublime/ethereal glow of Hudson River School landscape paintings, I use color to reference and channel spiritual healing energy and protection magic. Southern Gothic and occult traditions lead the move beyond rigid, traditional thinking and reasoning to connect with the primal and a limitless spirituality centered in queerness, empowerment and choice.

Zipporah Camille Thompson is a weaver and sculptor from North Carolina living and working in Atlanta + NYC. Thompson’s work explores alchemical transformations through clay and woven textiles, delving into themes of chaos, metamorphosis, and rebellion. Her weavings conjure cosmic, ancestral power while exploring the Black imaginary through sculpted shapeshifters and hybrid landscapes. Through these works, she centers hope, magic, and triumph within a boundless framework of spirituality.

Thompson earned her MFA from the University of Georgia and her BFA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibited nationally and internationally. She is a 2025 Socrates Fellow, a 2024 Skowhegan resident, a 2024 South Arts Georgia Fellow for Visual Arts, a 2023 recipient of the Margie E. West Prize, a 2021 MOCA GA Working Artist Project Fellow, a 2020 Artadia Atlanta Awardee, and has received numerous additional honors, including the Watershed Zenobia Scholarship, the NCECA Multicultural Fellowship, and an Idea Capital Travel Grant.

Thompson is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, GA. Outside of her practice, she is a history enthusiast and roller-skater with a deep love for mermaids, unicorns, zombies, the moon, tarot, science fiction, western narratives, stargazing, and all things fantastical.

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