Blanket Stories: Continuum (Book I)

2007

Marie Watt

(American, enrolled Seneca Nation, b. 1967)

printer

Aaron Shipps

(American, active 21st century)

publisher

Tamarind Institute

Culture

America

Medium

Color lithograph with chine collé

Measurements

Image: 38.6 x 56.3 cm (15 3/16 x 22 3/16 in.); Sheet: 56.3 x 76 cm (22 3/16 x 29 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Linda and Jack Lissauer, M.D. 2023.95

Catalogue raisonné

Tamarind 07-301

Edition

12/16

Impression

This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

Marie Watt considers blankets to be markers of one’s life, since they frame many of life’s moments from sleep, birth, and love to sickness and death.

Description

Seneca artist Marie Watt’s sculptural practice often incorporates blankets she has gathered from her community, which hold the memories and stories of those who owned them, as well as Iroquois creation stories. Blanket Stories Continuum (Book 1) consists of texts comprising the poignant stories she gathered from community members who donated blankets to her projects. Watt composed the texts in a crossed pattern to mimic the weave of a blanket.