Is This Home
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© 2018
- Dimensions (in inches): 9 x 6 x 1 (closed)
- Materials:book board, paper, 23 kt gold, acrylic, cherry, petrified wood, thread, oil paint, book cloth
- Collection of: University of Utah Marriot Library Special Collections
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From an ongoing series of Narrative Treasure works that are individually inspired by working with a particlar object - an object that evokes personal memory. Is This Home is an eight panel (including end pages) accordion book with hard covers, house in a box alongside the piece of petrified wood that provided a starting point for this work.
I know well the exhilaration felt in windswept tundra high above the timberline.
The air, though thin, nurtures. In tumultuous skies I find solace.
Now this, this land of petrified wood, cactus, relentless heat,
punctuated by vast tracts of low growing sage -
why so familiar?
Struck dumb by certainty that I belong here;
desperate with yearning.
Oh - to be swallowed up by these vividly painted badlands.