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Dark Matter: Women Witnessing - December, 2015 Issue #3 - EXTINCTION / DEVOTION
In Honor of the Winged Ones, 2014
The twelve hanging altars were birthed almost simultaneously, in the
sense that I worked on them all at the same time. The first to appear
complete was in honor of honeybees, and then monarch butterflies
arrived. Over the course of three months, altars to honor old growth
trees, clean water, indigenous cultures, clean air, creatures of the land,
the winged ones, clean energy, creatures of the sea, fertile soil and
human beings emerged. Twelve in all, each one a piece of the puzzle
we need to solve. Although there is so much more to mourn and
experience with gratitude, I felt complete with this chapter.
When the altars are on display, the audience has an opportunity to
share stories of their own grief and gratitude on a piece of tracing
paper. A basket of small stones sits nearby. Contributors leave their
“trace” under a stone at the foot of each wall hanging/altar. Visitors can
read the contributions of others, each person bending down, in a
modest form of homage, and moving stones as they do this.
In Honor of Honey Bees, 2014
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