reception may 5th 6 - 9 pm

R A I N E B E D S O L E

RAINE BEDSOLE Fragments of Lost Days

Water is everywhere in New Orleans, above us, below us, in the very air that we breathe. We look up at passing ships. When I was a child on a farm in coastal Alabama, a nearby

again, and then the process would repeat itself as the river would riser higher and higher -

-boats carried the fallen warrior to the god realm of Odin, just as the soul ships of Irian

the afterlife in barques. Boats are powerful symbols of transcendence. I am also intrigued by the more intimate forms and personal qualities of expression found in handcrafted vessels such as pirogues, canoes and dugouts. My own boats are vessels of the psyche,

Front Cover: Lamentation Boat, Blue Water BoatFragments of Lost Days Boat

Front Cover: Lamentation Boat, Blue Water BoatFragments of Lost Days Boat

Pair of Oars Blue Oar Poetry Oar

Net Boat

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