Rattle
2003
Four channel video installation
Dimensions vary
“For this work, the artist learned to make her own rattles in order to explore their function in Indigenous healing. The echoing of images reflects the continuum of earth and sky, and Claxton explains that in Lakota belief “the above world and the below world mirror each other.” Rattle is both a visual prayer and a symbolic tale. It conveys the dynamic nature of art on the plains, found in the rhythmic sounds and steps of traditional ceremony.”
— By Sandra Fraser for the Remai Modern
Rattle, installed at Stop(the Gap): International Indigenous Art, Samstag Museum, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 2011. Photography by Mick Bradley. Courtesy of Samstag Museum of Art.
Rattle, installed at Stop(the Gap): International Indigenous Art, Samstag Museum, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 2011. Photography by Mick Bradley. Courtesy of Samstag Museum of Art.