Self Portrait

Self Portrait © Karrie Kirchner 2019

Written and recorded 7/12/20

Bibliography

• Quilt book hand me down

• Fedco seed catalogue

• ? National Geographic Native American Dress

• Brown paper bag

• Repurposed wood scraps

• Machine stitching

My hands speak the language of my heart.  

My experiences absorbed

  Trans lated through my hands

muted

fixed

ported

Love woven - assumed in the fabric of a quilt and a dress.

Black and white - evokes binary feeling, duality

Flower in the place of a head - blooming, displaying beauty, unfurling, unfolding, ephemeral

In a Past Life, I was a Native American Woman.  In another time, another how, when and where my husband and I were together before. This is how I can connect empathetically and link in the intersectionality of all experiences.  This explains my Bone Wisdom and Reverence of Nature.  I have affirmed and dedicated my life to restoring the Land.  I make offerings of prayer and reparative payment to the local Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation.

This visual work represents the creativity that springs forth from my hands.  Spirit bestows on me the gifts of creation and it is my passion and mission in life to translate the stirrings of Spirit and birth these messages into being.