‘Callin’ You Home’
36” H x 27” W x 27” D
Ceramic owl (fired in one piece) on suede covered steel stand. Wild tobacco form covering stand with beaded suede leave and artist sculpted bronze tobacco flowers and buds. Cured brown commercial tobacco leaf and beaded ‘Cancer Stick’ cigarettes clutched in owl’s claws.
The Screech owl is a portend of death in Cherokee stories and thus has multiple meanings including:
1. Using tobacco cigarettes and in modern forms will kill you, with home being your grave or heaven or wherever your belief system sends you. 2. The owl and wild tobacco beckons you home to the original ideals and medicinal purpose of tobacco, reminds you of your roots and gives you a way back to them.
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‘Gasp’
11" T x 8.5" W x 6"D
Hand built ceramic diseased lungs ashtray with pouting lips sculpted on top of larynx, , peyote stitch & freehand bead weaving cigarettes and stubs with ash, silver plated wire to represent smoke of lit cigarette.
Inspired by childhood memories of extremely large decorative ashtrays 'Gasp' is shaped and colored like diseased necrotic lungs. Again, the inherent sacredness of tobacco is revealed in its enduring beauty, even in the form of waste ash and butts.
“Cancer Stick”
Peyote stitch beaded “cigarettes” with skull and crossbones design in matching ceramic ashtray.
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First Place Winner - Division VI - Three Dimensional Art - Red Cloud Heritage Center / 100 Mission Dr / Pine Ridge SD 57770
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“Un American Spirit”
Loom woven pendant using Size 15 beads. Silver plated findings.
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“I Love You” (ᎬᎨᏳᎢ in Cherokee)
Bead embroidered human heart medicine pouches.
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