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Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #12.
Cast paper, copper wire, rolled Japanese paper. 2007 |
A reliquary is a vessel made to contain that which is sacred.
Kate Strickland's reliquaries are small in scale, intimate, and made of humble materials. Containing humble materials. Materials made from living things. Materials that are temporal; are temporary; are passing. Things that float, suspended in time, as we do.
Some of them fit in your pocket (the pocket, the everyday reliquary). Some can't be contained in whole universes.
The things that are most precious are perishable; are precious
because they are perishable. Because they are impossible to contain for long.
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| Kate Strickland, Remnant Reliquary #13. Cast paper. 2007 |
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Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #15.
Cast paper, copper beads, thread. 2007 |
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Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #16.
Cast paper, polaroid transfer, silver wire. 2007 |
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Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #22.
Cast paper, seed pods, tangerine tree thorns. 2008 |
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| Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #29. Cast paper. 2008 |
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| Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #7. Cast paper, thread. 2007 |
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Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #11. Cast paper, thread. 2007
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Kate Strickland. Remnant Reliquary #9.
Cast paper, beeswax, beaver vertebrae, waxed linen cord. 2007 |
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