“…As children we knew our place, our value, and our limitations. We also knew that we were not necessarily needed and therefore easily excused to wander and explore our natural world in complete safety and with wild abandon.”
Evidence of Experience at David’s Fine Art Gallery, Murphy NC – The entire gallery became an installation of Sandy Webster’s works on her narratives of memory and place.
In addition to several series, there is a hand written artist statement surrounding the walls and several artist books for the viewer to examine.
About “Where I once belonged” – “It was a patriarchal system where men managed the means of acquisition and made the decisions which determined our lives. The woman’s obligation (and usually desire) was to ease those determinations into existence. As children we knew our place, our value, and our limitations. We also knew that we were not necessarily needed and therefore easily excused to wander and explore our natural world in complete safety and with wild abandon.”
The Lewis and Clark Satchel houses an accordion book that tracks their route out to the Pacific Coast and then their return on the other side. It has quotes from their journals and sketches of some of what they would have seen along the way.
The open compass visible through an opening in the satchel is a replica of the one that President Jackson gave to Lewis to use on his trip. There is an opening at the side of the compass so it can be removed and handled. Other compartments on either side house the found and collected objects from near their starting point in Missouri and the out on the Pacific coast.
The satchel and pages for the accordion style book documenting their journey were treated to have the feel of parchment and hides.
