Coyote Night: Cosmic Illusion #35
Salli McQuaid: #35: Coyote Night,
26"w x 20"h, 2008. Detail R.
Materials and Techniques: Commercial textiles, original silk, specialty threads,
Swarovsky crystals.
Machine embroidery (resident and self-authored), piecing, digital photography,
pantographing, quilting.
Artist's Statement
| Coyote Night
began at the Coyote Café in Santa Fe, NM. There, I was
shooting some photographs of the café's interior. When I later
examined them, there was one in particular that drew my attention.
It was a photograph of the restaurant’s ceiling. This photograph
expressed for me the hidden aspects of the region’s culture. Santa
Fe is thick with history, and there is a spiritual
undercurrent that moves as powerfully as the mighty Columbia River.
Land and spirit seem interlocked and mysterious, like the night. In Coyote Night, I use photographs, Santa Fe imagery, abstractions, and Native American icons to express that dichotomous world. |
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