Netting

I made this piece for an exhibition curated by Faith Fischer and Zoe Seay titled “Variations on a Dream.” They sifted through dream submissions from the public and assigned one dream to a visual artist and a poet. I was paired with Camille Sauers; we did not collaborate at all when making our work for our dream, however you will notice stark similarities between the works.

The dream:

“Had a dream in a big house, went to a small room with a low ceiling, mummified small figures in there. Someone told me that the one in the back was 3000 years old, it reached out to me. As I touched it, I was flooded with arcane enlightenment, so much so that it made me want to weep.”

My sculpture was inspired by the research I did on ancient burial methods, specifically indigenous Australian hollow log coffins. Known as lorrkkon, these logs naturally hollowed out by termites are the host of past loved ones’ bones after they were decomposed in tall trees.

“Netting” holds something obviously human in an act of grief. Hard work.