Entrance to Phipps Exhibit

This piece is For Lillian Elliot. I created this piece after reading that Lillian Elliot had died. In a way, she was a mentor of mine, although we never met. I followed her work closely as she moved from card weaving to baskets. I was thrilled to see some of her work in exhibits at SOFA two weeks ago. I shared her love of making structures with skeletons and skins. She collaborated with Pat Hickman and used gut skin over her lashed reed structures. In this piece, I lashed branches to form the skeleton. For the skin, I dipped felted flax fibers into clay slip.