Lisa Kokin
Ninety-Nine Leaves #2 , 2012
72 x 32
in
Thread, leaves.
From the catalog essay for Raveling by Maria Porges
These veils of pale leaf ‘skeletons’ composed of thread incorporate delicate shreds of printed text taken from an all-but- destroyed Hebrew prayer book Kokin found at a salvage yard. In these pieces, there is one leaf for each of the years of her mother’s life. Kokin found and pressed the actual leaves that served as a pattern for her thread creations in the course of a walk she took a few hours after her mother died. These familiar shapes — maple, oak, eucalyptus– are potent symbols of the evanescent nature of life itself, and its eventual and inevitable end.
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