Program of Research/Creation
“Forest I” is a cedar bark, plastic strapping, and wool wrapped-twined and plaited full-size automobile (1956 Nash Metropolitan) with bark salvaged from urban forests clear cut for condominium developments.
Spirits, shown by flowers and animals woven in wool, considers wrapped bottles, wrapped bodies, as its ancestral line. Forest I speaks of colonization, urban sprawl, the concept of trash (the tree, the car, and what comes back again).
i weave, continuing the hand work of my Maya lineage; Mary Magdalene is weaving in a Tree, my mother’s paper roses and frosting roses, the back strap loom.
Resource Extraction and Species Extinction
Driving, flying, walking, in the west at least, through Canada and the U.S., clear cuts all around. Logging trucks fly down the interstate, mud slides down newly shorn mountains in the rain. More homes, box stores, car dealerships are built, and a group of snow geese have no place to land. There they are, along the freeway, looking.
Does one have the sorrow of the clearcut, or the thrill of progress?
Where is the feeling of loss, of never being able to experience a true wilderness –
or is it the fear of the wilderness, that prevails?
Remediating an urban landscape that came from the forest, still smelling of bark, roots, and soil, in Forest I, happens through the act of salvage. Bark, considered trash to construction crews, is transformed here into a basketry car. Thinking back to the basketry covered glass bottles, Forest I considers and speaks to the several waves of colonialism upon aboriginal peoples.
As always, annie, your work is beautiful and inspiring. xxx
Annie! I just had an inspiring tour through your project and admired your animal friends!
Gorgeous designs, colours, textures, light…
Simply amazing, so much heart and determination goes into your work, like a story you have written for nature to read, I love it.
What a beautiful and moving project.
absolutely blown away by the beauty, thought, intelligence, tradition and soul you have put into this. I would adore to see it in person.
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