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Offering 1
Offering 1 documents what was successfully brought to the icy top of Mt. Ranier: a Jackson Square banana leaf turned pocket, full of tiny locks of hair (mine, my husband's, and Peggy and Charlie Bishop's) and equally tiny portions of cremains of my friend, Jamie Burks, and of Peggy's mother, Mary Jane Benefield, and Charlie's mother, Betty Bishop.
Offering 2
Offering 2 was again borne by Ellen on my behalf to a slope in Equador. These crotons from my garden contained my hair from the day it "died" and the Thanksgiving turkey wishbone my husband, Kevin McCaffrey, and I brought with us to our medical pilgrimage to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York upon completion of chemo and radiation in mid-December of 1999.
Twenty-five percent of the profits from sales of these prints will be donated to The Breast Cancer Fund, a national non-profit organization formed in 1992 to innovate and accelerate the response to the breast cancer crisis. The mission of the Fund is to end breast cancer and to make sure the best medical care, support services and information are available to all.
Biography of a Ballplayer
Inspired by her professional baseball player father, "Biography of a Ballplayer" embodies Gilbert's characteristic method of rummaging (a pursuit she enjoyed in her mother's closet as a child), resulting in a multi-layered collage. Gilbert sees her works, which are born from a studio littered with stacks of open books, as "contemporary cave paintings" because they create an immediate history for the viewer. Her work incorporates childhood lessons in scrapbookmaking and assembling remnants, a process she calls "an attempt to record the texture and fabric of a life."
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"OFFERINGS"
Offerings began just after I was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer during the summer of 1999, and while I was undergoing multiple treatments and efforts to heal. A friend, Ellen Johnson, asked me to give her something to carry to inspire her during her climb to the summit of Mt. Ranier: a hand-delivered gift to the gods. There were two requirements: it must be biodegradable and very light.
Front and Back
iris giclee prints
11 x 8.25 inches
Front and Back
iris giclee prints
6 x 9.5 inches
"Offerings" is a work in progress.
silkscreen print
commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans) as the 1997 Century Club Print.
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New Orleans, Louisiana 70124
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