Five Citizens (Jennifer)
Artist
Lynn Basa
MediumHand-knotted in Nepal of wool and silk on cotton warp
Dimensions36 1/2 x 36 in. (92.7 x 91.4 cm)
ClassificationsTextile
Credit LineSeattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection
As a well known Northwest artist who works primarily in fiber work, she asked herself, ”What can I say with fiber that I can’t say with any other medium? The answer for that, for me, is that fiber comes loaded with associations even before anything is created from it; associations having to do with the domestic, ritual, warmth, shelter, childhood, the feminine. In Five Citizens, I tried to create a representation of the portrait subjects.