Louise Erdrich, Blue Woman, 2015
Backstory:
“The gumballs seemed strangely timeless once placed in antique shot glasses. She said they reminded her of the timeless time trapped in the creations of Joseph Cornell, whose boxes she had held in a dim museum basement shortly after he died. She found herself putting together what she called “her thoughts” and constructing a large totemic figure...
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Table of Contents
- Frame hand-lettered with obscured text by Louise Erdrich
- star maps; Gitanes cigarette label
- photograph Omphalos by X
- vintage shot glasses; forty-year-old blue gumballs, won in drinking game in Fargo, North Dakota
- silverware trays; Blessed Virgin Mary statuette from Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City
- carpenter’s chalk; wishbones
- ceramic birds; turned wood
- shoe forms
- house paint paper, and photos
- goose feathers
- box fabricated by Quint Hankel.