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Tribe: From Little Acorns
Why mummies people ask me? They have seen a few wrapped forms show up over the years and after my last body of work was completed (completed in Thailand where we lived for two years), what pulled me forward was a wrapped Buddha I made inspired by the bundled up Buddha statues we would see bound for a new temple.
Exploring my fascination with the late Greek and Roman mummy forms, I spent my first winter home from Thailand wrapping both fiber (using wallpaper paste, acrylic and oil paint, and oil pastel), and clay covered fiber that was subsequently fired. The frontal aspect, of being encased shows up in many of the mummies, but I also feel entities wanting to emerge from their wrappings.
I’ve come a long way from those first mummies. I make them because it’s a break from my serious meditative bark work. The mummies are more process driven and I often reveal a more emotive side of me.
I started out fascinated with the Late Egyptian wrapping patterns of mummies and did a few of those, but they have morphed (are they Morphos?) into snapshots of my mind at any given time. I enjoy the more process driven aspect of making these little critters. The individual mummies are about 5 to 7 inches and groups (tribes) are larger. Were indicated, the mummies are for sale, plus shipping costs.
Shown here "Tribe, From Little Acorns" fiber, acorns, paint 9 1/2"h x 26"w x 3 1/2"d $425
"Mouse Mum", fiber, wire, paint
"Aura" plastic baby doll, acupuncture needles, $450
"Baby Jesus and the Three Wise Mummies", sardine can, fiber, paint, found objects
"Deep Sea II" fiber, paint, $100
"Crested Fly Mummy", fiber, wire, paint, $90
A grouping of Mums
"Left Handed Kid", kid glove from my mother's estate, paint, fiber
"Little Red Bird", fiber, wire, paint, $80
"Maiden Mummy", fiber, found dress, yak hair, $125
"Mom Mum", fiber, found objects, paint
"Deep Sea I", fiber, found eyes, honeysuckle, paint
"Murtle" turtle shell, fiber, paint
"Pink Peep" fiber, clay, paint
"Playing With Matches" found objects, fiber, paint
"Right Handed Mum" kid glove from my mother's estate, fiber, paint,
"The Magistrate" scrub brush from my mother's estate, fiber, nails, paint, $125
"Siamummies" fiber, paint, $125
"Snipe" fiber, wire, paint, $90
Grouping of Mummies
"Alice in Mummyland" found objects, fiber, paint, human hair
"Thrush" fiber, wire, paint
"Tribe, Ring of Dreams" fiber, honeysuckle, paint, approx. 22" dia. $550
"Tribe, Treed" fiber, white pine bark, paint, 32"h x 11"w x 4"d, $550
"Turtle Mummy" turtle shell, fiber, paint
"Kimonomummy I" fiber, found hair piece, paint $125