Sojourner

A child’s jacket, made from felt maps of the continents of the world, hangs on a woodenbranch.  From its sleeves, maps fall towards the floor and then up to the opposite end of the branch.  A small clay bird surveys the scene.  The gesture of the empty jacket suggests stasis, a pause in a transit, destination unknown.  The one to one scale of the jacket, is juxtaposed to the micro scale of the cascading maps, as if seen from a great distance.

Shown in “Murmuration” curated by Elizabeth Schoyer, 2023, at the University of Virginia.