Braided Spirals
Lori Mairs
Okanagan writer and scholar Jeanette Armstrong, describes the Okanagan word for "land" as "this very place in its braided spiral of time and living beings." In response to this poetic description, Mairs' work of bone and braided wool marks the entrance to the pathways on this land and the four compass points. The sculptures hang from trees, roughly 15 to 20 feet off the ground, dangling string all the way to the ground.
