A little corny :-)

A few weekends ago, my friend Megan and I, went to the Seattle Art Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum. It was the first time I had ever engaged what was on display. Megan and I were able to dialogue about pieces and bounce ideas off of each other. The Tacoma Art Museum had on display, an installation piece by Marie Watt. She created/constructed a felted/wool structure that you entered with bare feet. It felt very cave-like inside the structure with felted "rock" covers, stalactites and what I refer to as the little magic man! There was, projected onto the inside walls in three separate places, a holographic image of a Native, telling stories... I was overjoyed!!!  The inspiration began to flow through me and I wrote down all the emotions I experienced while inside the structure. I was fortunate enough to have personal time inside this space. The museum was not busy!!!!

I purchased her book and began to read, immediately after arriving home. She has worked with corn husks in the past and created a bridge in Portland that was structurally based off of the corn husk structure made by the veins. I began to think about corn, our similar connection to being Native American but not knowing where our connection leads to, or from... Not wanting to "copy" her in any way I began to think about the corn silk and how "string" like it is. It is also a very liminal material inside the corn structure itself. What a perfect material to play with! At first I was going to attempt to stiffen it as I did to the string. My mentor suggested creating a bracelet out of the corn silk. However, it is too fragile of a material, for now... ( I know I can figure out someway to make string out of corn silk.) So then I decided to weave it into some bracelets I am working on. Here are my results!!!