Seed

Artwork developed at the Women and Mud Symposium, Arreciado, Spain. Thistle seed heads collected nearby, are attached to the wall using tiny supports of mud. These appear as nipples releasing puffs or bursts of energy. The mounted seeds also appear as eyes or the iris of the eye, prickly and wide open, pinpointing the seed in the mud and linking seeing to new growth and the flight and multitude of the seeds. The work is delicate, slightly blurred like a breath of air, magical, barely there. My initial response to working with mud was to recognize that the earth supports all life, so the mud became a support (or glue) for other objects from nature.