Navajo Emerging at the Sock Hop Basket - Lorraine Black (#76)
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Navajo Baskets
"Emerging at the Sock Hop"
18"
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Once in a while something arrives at the trading post that amazes and confuses all of us. The most recent creation from Lorraine Black is one such item. Several years ago Barry and I were attending the Navajo Show at the Museum of Northern Arizona where we noticed a rug with a hole in the center. It was explained to us that the hole represented Spiderwoman, and the emergence of the Navajo people from the prior world into this world. The weaving was extraordinary, and I have always regretted not acquiring it for our collection. A few years later Barry and I convinced two basket weavers to weave ceremonial baskets with emergence holes. Both weavers made one basket each and informed us they could make no more because these were sacred emergence baskets and their elders had cautioned them against repeating the design. Lorraine's latest basket has a similar emergence hole at its center, and a profusion of symbols indicating the evolution of contemporary Navajo people involved in practicing the traditional song and dance. The dancers are surrounded by a fog of gray clouds and are depicted in a Piccaso style, indicating the ongoing changes the people are undergoing and the difficulty associated with the transformation. Barry and I have a running debate over whether this basket is truly inspired or just confusing. I think it is inspired, and Barry is just plain confused.
About the artist:
Inspired by dreams, Lorraine Black's skills have literally elevated basket weaving to new dimensions. Lorraine Black's infectious laugh belies the serious magic her hands conjure up when weaving a basket. Unprecedented in her ideas, Lorraine's baskets are innovative and beautiful. Many of them make good use of texture through over-stitching and the addition of objects such as flint arrowheads or horsehair.
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