Peregrination
Rita Rasmussen
This assemblage carries many stories from the place where Rita lives.
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TITLE: Peregrination. The process of this assemblage incorporates time, place, movement and weather... I created it a few years ago using a ceramic mask I had made. The open eye side is alert and watching, while the closed eye is the dreaming side of the self. The body is a piece of driftwood with natural arms and legs. The wild hair is from the roots of a cedar tree. The white encircling the face is made of vertebrae that were discovered in a bird's nest that had fallen to the ground. The vertebrae is strung and can be worn as a necklace. The figure is walking by a "windfall" tree that blew over in a storm fifty years ago -- exposing the dark root ball pitted with dirt and rocks. Ferns and primitive horsetails (Equisetum) grow in front. |
Rita Rasmussen lives in Powell River, BC, Canada
email Rita at iansomervil@yahoo.ca