Am茅lie Guthrie: Marsh Keepers
Octavia Art Gallery is pleased to present Marsh Keepers, a solo exhibition of environmental embroidery by Am茅lie Guthrie in celebration of the natural world and humanity's responsibility to cherish and protect it.
In her new large-scale embroidery, Amelie Guthrie channels these pleas into a pantheon of alligator activists. While Louisiana contends with the highest rate of wetlands loss in the country, she calls on her fellow swamp dwellers and earth lovers to protect their local marshes. Like patron saints of the swamps, these creatures plead for defense of their shared home. As Louisiana鈥檚 wetlands and its vulnerable inhabitants are daily destroyed, she鈥檚 summoned these gators to confront the viewer. What are we doing to save our home? What are you doing?
As with her alligators, she stitches what she wants the viewer to consider and hopefully treasure. A Louisiana Wild Heart and Another Louisiana Wild Heart are celebrations of the resplendence of Louisiana鈥檚 native flora. The first is a cornucopia of the state鈥檚 native flowers, and the second exalts local marsh grasses and mosses. All of this sacred botany adorns flaming hearts, a nod to the icon of the Blessed Mother鈥檚 flaming heart. A visual prayer, she hopes to stoke the flames in each chest to wilder environmental love and action. The Ghost Coast series is meant to attract the viewer with its bright pastels and seemingly abstract shapes. Posing as eye candy, it pulls one into its subject: projections of dramatic wetlands loss over the next few decades. Again, the threads highlight what she wants you to contemplate. Working from maps published in the Times Picayune鈥檚 鈥淟ouisiana 2050: Rising seas will upend life. Time is running out to limit the impact,鈥� she鈥檚 divided Louisiana鈥檚 coast into fourths and has stitched the sections of Louisiana鈥檚 wetlands projected to disappear by 2070 if the climate crisis is ignored. Calling for a collective re-enchantment with native nature, she asks the viewer to cherish and protect it. Her female-spirited embroidery aims to invigorate the feminine strength in all communities, especially Louisiana.
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Octavia Art Gallery is pleased to present Marsh Keepers, a solo exhibition of environmental embroidery by Am茅lie Guthrie in celebration of the natural world and humanity's responsibility to cherish and protect it.
In her new large-scale embroidery, Amelie Guthrie channels these pleas into a pantheon of alligator activists. While Louisiana contends with the highest rate of wetlands loss in the country, she calls on her fellow swamp dwellers and earth lovers to protect their local marshes. Like patron saints of the swamps, these creatures plead for defense of their shared home. As Louisiana鈥檚 wetlands and its vulnerable inhabitants are daily destroyed, she鈥檚 summoned these gators to confront the viewer. What are we doing to save our home? What are you doing?
As with her alligators, she stitches what she wants the viewer to consider and hopefully treasure. A Louisiana Wild Heart and Another Louisiana Wild Heart are celebrations of the resplendence of Louisiana鈥檚 native flora. The first is a cornucopia of the state鈥檚 native flowers, and the second exalts local marsh grasses and mosses. All of this sacred botany adorns flaming hearts, a nod to the icon of the Blessed Mother鈥檚 flaming heart. A visual prayer, she hopes to stoke the flames in each chest to wilder environmental love and action. The Ghost Coast series is meant to attract the viewer with its bright pastels and seemingly abstract shapes. Posing as eye candy, it pulls one into its subject: projections of dramatic wetlands loss over the next few decades. Again, the threads highlight what she wants you to contemplate. Working from maps published in the Times Picayune鈥檚 鈥淟ouisiana 2050: Rising seas will upend life. Time is running out to limit the impact,鈥� she鈥檚 divided Louisiana鈥檚 coast into fourths and has stitched the sections of Louisiana鈥檚 wetlands projected to disappear by 2070 if the climate crisis is ignored. Calling for a collective re-enchantment with native nature, she asks the viewer to cherish and protect it. Her female-spirited embroidery aims to invigorate the feminine strength in all communities, especially Louisiana.
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