seam
reclaimed leather (boots, bags, clothes) hand stitching, stuffing, metal armature, plastic tubing, pump, water, sheep wool, wood. 10’ x 7’ x 4’ 2010
Water is pumped through the horse via perforated plastic tubing that allows it to seep out wherever it finds a path through the literal ‘skin’ of the animal: and drip into the vessel below filled with sheep wool. There is the distinct barn smell of wet leather and wool, and the muffled sound of water falling softly onto the wool. The sense is of weeping, bleeding, raining, sweating: cleansing, loss, renewal. A seam can be a suture, a closure, a crack – a repair- a scar- a joining.