Every 1 2024

NBO Members Exhibition


Eric Stark

RG28-23 (us)

Sweetgrass coiled with waxed linen thread and artificial sinew affixed to a found stone.
The work begins with foraging for stones, most come from Maine. I begin by weaving directly to the stone, fixing the sweetgrass firmly much like seaweed held fast to ocean rocks. I then begin coiling, an image in mind but aware that the relationship between stone and sweetgrass is organic and to be partially discovered through the act of weaving.

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H: 9" | W: 6.5" | D: 4"
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Eric Stark
Portland, ME
As an architect with a theater background, I am interested in space, process and material. My basketry attempts to explore these topics. My current work is both planned and spontaneous beginning with stone foraged from the Maine coast, and then working with sweetgrass to discover form through coiling. In this way, the recent work explores connection, pattern, form, and space. The pieces attempt to be simultaneously novel and nostalgic: sometimes old and deeply felt, sometimes something new and fabulous not considered before.
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