Barbara Weidell
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Madra

stoneware cone 10 electric fire, wire, sinew, horse hair, bone, beads, keys and other found materials

20" x 25" x 18"
2015

$1,800

In many Ancient religions the dog were associated with funerary customs often carrying the dead to the next world, eventually shifting from carrying the dead to the gods to becoming gods.  Madra is an archaic Irish word for dog.  She is the “Opener of the Way” holding keys and bones pondering the passage to the next world.