Inheriting a collection of objects or information that is evidence of someone’s obsession can be a gift, a burden, a responsibility. Ultimately you have to ask if you’ve inherited the obsession as well. Four artists have come together, each with their own inherited collection and the desire to re-catalog as a transformative act, ultimately answering questions about their own obsessions. Woolworth's windows, 11th and Broadway, Tacoma WA
Monday, March 7, 2011
my mountain
Five months of embroidery didn’t achieve all of Mom’s 125 views of Mount Rainier. But...she had 88 years to accomplish her obsession, and as it turned out 88 is the number of handkerchiefs I completed. I WILL finish them; each a story, a connection, her mountain, my mountain, my own obsession now.
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