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Tiffany Besonen

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Fruit and Labor (Full View)

Mother Pear, Father Log (Full View)
Mother Pear, Father Log (Full View)

Sewing Patterns, Wax, Hand Hewn Logs,
96" x 84" x 72"

Fruit and Labor (Full View) | Media List


Statement

As a mixed media sculptor and storyteller, I recycle historical and found materials into three-dimensional stories about identity, motherhood and family. In collaboration with my husband Daniel Besonen’s traditional Finnish logwork, our family story unfolds.

We consider our collaborative work to be three-dimensional “chapters” from an epic tale about a modern Finnish-American family. These chapters feature the fragile, yet resilient pear as the mother, child and the womb – and the warm, protective log as the father and shelter.

The most recent chapter, Chapter 6, is dialogue of Mother Pear and Father Log as they build a home. Each chapter explores layers of history and reality in building family and identity today.