Ossuary Project

A netting needle is used in fishing communities to mend fishing nets; yet also to make new ones.  I use this process to explore the potential to heal a relationship or to create something new. Instead of a netting card, which helps to support the “backbone” thread in both an old net and the formation of a new one, attached is a small, corked glass bottle with half a love poem inside. The work was made for the project Ossuary organized by artist Laurie Beth Clark. http://ossuaries.wordpress.com/ 

Ossuary

"For this project, hundreds of artists will create a single bone, a cluster of bones, or an art work that is inspired by, uses, or plays with the idea of  bones. The works may be in any medium, in two, three, or four dimensions. The contributions may be political statements and personal elegies, memorials to individuals or statements about mortality.  They may represent connections to our ancestors and/or to our descendants.  Some will be serious and some will use bones in a completely playful manner. Ossuary was inspired by the repositories of bones that have accrued in countries like Cambodia and Rwanda where mass violence has taken place. But Ossuary is not a project about those traumas. Rather, I believe that artists counter images of pain with hopeful or poignant rejoinders. Envisioning hope for the world is one of the things that art can do."