Wherever I Go, Sky Beings Appear

Whooping Crane

Wherever I Go, Sky Beings Appear Whooping Crane is a wanderer, a meanderer, a flâneur. Octopus graffiti, carte de visite photo transfers, metro tickets, and a pipe that is not a pipe (ceci n’est pas une pipe) accompany her through the streets of Paris. Stories she gathers as she walks the city are written on the body. Pathways walked in Paris are at the same time maps and imagined sky beings. One map/sky being is simultaneously called “Le Marais” and “Little Walking Bear,” “Mise en abyme” - “placing into the abyss”, references the stories within the stories.

Made using an antique French doll body, repurposed fabrics, paper, leather, and buttons. The body is collaged with images of the home that she carries with her always. The head and neck, sewn from an old cloth Yum Yum fertilizer bag, are hand embroidered with symbols, a Paris street map and French phrases. The feet and legs are wound round with cloth naming the streets she has traversed. The wings are sewn from yellow checkered fabric found at a brocante market in France. She’s a traveler, for now, a dream traveler.

Wherever I Go, Sky Beings Appear Whooping Crane is a one of a kind mixed media textile sculpture measuring 38 x 8.5 x 7 inches with a hanging loop on the back.

photo by addison doty