Home Land
© Shan Goshorn Studio
The connection between technological advancement and human modes of perceiving and thinking has been widely observed and addressed among media theorists. Goshorn puts this idea into action by using a combination of traditional techniques in basket weaving and a contemporary process of material making involving digital scanning and printing, entwining the connections the Cherokee have with their ancestral homeland.
Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Catalogue Entry
Written by: Lei Han
In this basket by Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians artist Goshorn, the single-weave technique, detachable lid, and cross-on-a-hill pattern are elements drawn from the Cherokee culture’s long history of craftsmanship. Goshorn expands on tradition with her contemporary mixed-media approach, weaving with bright colors, photographic images, and strips of text on watercolor paper. The text references spring 1838, when the Cherokee people, overwhelmingly opposed to the US government’s plan of removal, planted corn and prepared as usual for their fall harvest. The basket recalls the tragic months to follow when over 16,000 Cherokee people were forcibly removed from their homes and marched to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears. Goshorn interweaves historical documents, Cherokee medicine stories, and photographs of the Kituwah Mound near Bryson City, NC, as a way to express the Cherokee people’s enduring connection to their ancestral homeland.
Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Catalogue Entry
Written by: Carolyn Grosch
- Home Land , 7/22/2017 - 10/22/2017
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