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"I use an ancient basketry technique, coiling, to construct contemporary allegorical vessels, shrines and staffs. All of the forms are coiled with cotton thread over a wire core, using the figure-eight stitch. Each piece begins with symbols and stories. Creation stories, legends of great floods, parables of good and evil. I am intrigued that cultures from so many different places and times share related traditions, and by the universal nature of animal symbolism: snakes as symbols of evil (or regrowth and renewal), stork and cranes as signs of good fortune. The Parable of the Lion is a reference to an ancient Arabic fable and Pali Stories incorporates symbolism from a series of third century stories about Buddha."
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