Hekate's Dream
2016-2017
Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces NM,
“Transforming Space:Transforming Fiber - A Contemporary Fiber Invitational,”
Curator: Susan A. Christie
Visit the Exhibition Website At:
www.transformingspacetransformingfiber.com
“Transforming Space:Transforming Fiber - A Contemporary Fiber Invitational,”
Curator: Susan A. Christie
Visit the Exhibition Website At:
www.transformingspacetransformingfiber.com
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"Hekate’s Dream” is part of my on-going series of “Dream” installations, journeys into unconscious narratives, reworkings of memory and myth. This colorfully crocheted and knit installation is built from funnel-like shapes referencing desert plant forms and flowers. To me it is as if the archaic domestic goddess of ancient Greece, Hekate, dreamed of a desert landscape where distorted plants give way to surprising blooms, funnels deliver water and disrupting whirlwinds come and go.
Working with yarn and thread and cloth to “find” the imagery, I imagined myself at all ages in half-remembered rooms conversing with my mother and aunts and grandmothers while quilts and sweaters and socks emerged under our fingertips. Today for “Hekate’s Dream” I find around me a new circle of funnel-loving “fibersmiths.” I call these artist assistants The Yarn Goddesses. This project came to life through the skillful dedication of artist assistants Colleen Davis and Willow Blue Silver who helped me realize my vision for “Hekate’s Dream.” Colleen Davis* is a fiber artist from Bainbridge NY who worked as my research assistant while she completed the art and art history programs at Hartwick College. willow blue silver is an award-winning sculptor who lives in both Schenevus NY and Truth or Consequences NM.
The other generous Yarn Goddesses are Katherine Bartlett and her mother Tula Mandilas from Wayland MA, Kathy Rogers Wohlhuter and her daughter Mary Wohlhuter from Jacksonville FL, Sherry Sugg MacNicoll from Frenchtown NJ and Janet C. Oswald from Fort Edward NY. The last four friends on this list are members of my own Class of 1971 at Skidmore College; they came to our reunion in Saratoga Springs NY last June and joined the project.
This work was supported in part through Hartwick College Faculty Research Grants that funded two student artist assistants, Colleen Davis and Katherine Bartlett. - KK
Working with yarn and thread and cloth to “find” the imagery, I imagined myself at all ages in half-remembered rooms conversing with my mother and aunts and grandmothers while quilts and sweaters and socks emerged under our fingertips. Today for “Hekate’s Dream” I find around me a new circle of funnel-loving “fibersmiths.” I call these artist assistants The Yarn Goddesses. This project came to life through the skillful dedication of artist assistants Colleen Davis and Willow Blue Silver who helped me realize my vision for “Hekate’s Dream.” Colleen Davis* is a fiber artist from Bainbridge NY who worked as my research assistant while she completed the art and art history programs at Hartwick College. willow blue silver is an award-winning sculptor who lives in both Schenevus NY and Truth or Consequences NM.
The other generous Yarn Goddesses are Katherine Bartlett and her mother Tula Mandilas from Wayland MA, Kathy Rogers Wohlhuter and her daughter Mary Wohlhuter from Jacksonville FL, Sherry Sugg MacNicoll from Frenchtown NJ and Janet C. Oswald from Fort Edward NY. The last four friends on this list are members of my own Class of 1971 at Skidmore College; they came to our reunion in Saratoga Springs NY last June and joined the project.
This work was supported in part through Hartwick College Faculty Research Grants that funded two student artist assistants, Colleen Davis and Katherine Bartlett. - KK