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Marie Watt: Sky Dances Light
A member of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation, Marie Watt laces abstract sculptures with Indigenous meanings. The musical works in this exhibition — pendulous, many-lobed forms that hang from the ceiling — are festooned with conical curls of tin called “jingles.” These works reference a Seneca creation myth, in which a woman falls from the sky (the artist calls them “jingle clouds”), as well as Indigenous medicine traditions, in which healers wearing dresses adorned with jingles dance to cure patients with the silvery, rain-like sound. Visitors become participants simply by stepping inside the exhibition — we pass through a waterfall of jingle cones, bringing the work melodiously to life with our movement.
