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    • Sylta, the Whaling Widow Who Wails, 2024
    • One Woman, One Stone, 2023
    • Sharpless, Margaret, 2021
    • a Weighing, 2019
    • I Shot Myself in Augsburg, 2018
    • SeamStress, 2017
    • institutional, 2017
    • alighting, 2015
    • In Muddier Years, 2015
    • (w)hole, 2014-2015
    • Barking the Willow, 2012 - 2015
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  • b & w photography
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    • cropped, 2017
    • Self Portrait with Ear to Future & Past, 2016
    • Confessions of a Bishop's Housekeeper, 2016
    • For Esmé with Love and Squalor, 2016
    • The Smallest Room, 2016
    • dreaming of escape, 2015
    • Island- Burying the Dead, 2015
    • Crying Wolf, 2013
  • stitched drawings
  • weaving on paper
  • earlier works
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    • visitors and other beings, 2004-2011
    • soulfood, 2003
    • each & every, 2003
    • grace, 2002
    • single opening, 1999
    • Universal Mother, 1996
    • on pink, 1995
    • Walka Walka, 1992
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Visitors and other beings
2011

The needle-sculpted fiber art objects made between 2004 and 2012, range from 5 inches to 11 feet tall. The strange presence yet familiarity of these ‘beings’, regardless of size, age or beauty, allow viewers to explore their individual capacity for empathy.

Exhibition view at City Museum of Siegburg, Germany, photo: Eberhard Weible


Copyright Heather Sheehan, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Authors and Photographers.