Punctuating Place: 1: Woodland Figures
I
have created human forms made out of the organic elements found in the
forest to suggest the way native people lived with their land. They were
one with the forest, moving through, following the seasons, taking advantage
of the natural periods of abundance in animals and plants, sensitive to
make sure no one species was overused. I wish to thank Loren Spears and
the students at the Nuweetoon school for helping me construct these sculptures.
Narragansett basket-maker, Dawn Spears, helped me with the upper nest of
the figures, and Paula Jennings, curator of the Tomaquag Indian Museum
generously supplied Narragansett quotes for the front of the Native box.
Materials: cement, peat moss and pepperbush.
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