2002-2009
"Footprints on the Sands of Time"
handwoven Jacquard; cotton & metallic yarns
26" h x 45.5" w
2008
Although this weaving looks three dimensional, it is actually completely flat. The configuration of footprints in the sand looks somewhat like a pre-Columbian petroglyph. Sometimes our impact on the land is fleeting, and sometimes it it s long lasting. The title is a line from the poem, "Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Now in the permanent collection of the University of Michigan's Mott Children's Hospital (in Gallery Corridor off of main lobby of hospital), Ann Arbor, MI