april marie hale
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      • cobble brooches
    • gathering tide (2013)
    • what the tide brings (2013)
    • costume (2010-2012)
    • Signal Fire Outpost Residency (July 2011)
    • nature of the human animal (2010-2011)
    • anima (2009-2010)
    • transplants (2009)
    • reseeding (2009)
    • roadkill (2005-2008)
    • sundries (2004-2009)
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Water is an artist. I made this basket from washed-ashore kelp during my residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Before my departure, I placed the basket in the Salmon River, wanting to leave the materials where they were found. A month later, the basket returned to the estuary shore. The movement of the water, the journey of the materials: the tide added layers of significance to what came from my hands and the sea. 

Many thanks to Kim Stafford for the photographs.
(C) 2008 April Marie Hale