Three Ladders

Marie Watt (Seneca Nation of Indians) is an American artist whose work draws from human stories and rituals implicit in everyday objects while using indigenous design principles, oral traditions, and personal experience to shape its inner logic. Blankets, one of her primary materials, are objects that can carry extraordinary histories of use. By folding and stacking blankets, she forms columns that have references to linen closets, architectural braces, memorials, sculpture (Brancusi for one), the great totem poles of the Northwest, and the conifer trees with which she grew up. –Artist statement