The traveling eye 2: Teeth

This weekend a friend commented, "I didn't know you were so dark." Well, yeah. We all have to travel to the dark in order to find the light. The key is to know when to emerge again. These "Traveling Eye" posts are about my process as an artist -- what I look at, where I find inspiration, how I feel and react to what I have seen. Thank the amazing Diana Vreeland for the quote: 

"The eye has to travel."  

We do this in order to be frightened:

Nancy Fouts, "Purse with Teeth," 2010, London.

Victoria Manning, "Teeth Boxes," 2009, Brooklyn.

Artifact, ceremonial bowl with human teeth, Hawaii.

Regina Farrell, "Teeth Vessel," New York.

In order to be mesmerized.

Elizabeth Roseberry Mitchell, "The Graveyard Quilt," 1843. Kentucky.

"The Graveyard Quilt," Detail.

In order to consider.

In order to collect.

In order to slow one's pace.

In order to find 
the bravery to begin.