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Elaborate Baskets by Jeremy Frey Weave Indigenous Custom and Modern Type — Colossal

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#baskets
#Indigenous tradition
#Jeremy Frey
#Maine
#weaving

July 11, 2024

Kate Mothes

“Defensive” (2022), ash, sweetgrass, and dye, 12 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Picture courtesy of Eric Stoner. All photos © Jeremy Frey, shared with permission

Since time immemorial, the Wabanaki—Individuals of the Daybreak—have harvested sweetgrass in the summertime to be used in ceremonies and prayer and to make baskets, braids, pottery, and medication. In Maine, the plant grows alongside the coast in wetlands and marshes and is known as for its enchanting perfume that blends notes of vanilla, evergreen, earth, and salt. Harvesting solely what’s wanted stimulates the grass to ship up new shoots.

When European colonists established settlements alongside the japanese shoreline, they severely curtailed entry to sweetgrass as they encroached on the Indigenous tribes’ conventional territories. The Wabanaki, comprising the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes, had been usually prohibited from harvesting the sacred grass. Rights at the moment are restored in some areas, but despite the wrestle to retain entry, the fabric continues to play an enormously wealthy position in Indigenous tradition, not least within the area’s beautiful craft traditions.

Jeremy Frey was raised on the Passamaquoddy Indian Township Reservation in Maine and carries on the ancestral Wabanaki apply of weaving sweetgrass into elaborate baskets. “A descendant of a long line of Indigenous weavers, the artist learned traditional Wabanaki methods from his mother and by apprenticing at the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance,” says an announcement on his website.

 

detail of a blue, green, and cream-colored basket woven from sweetgrass

Element of “Defensive”

Foraging for the supplies that he processes and shapes into the sculptural kinds, Frey continues conventional strategies whereas increasing on the probabilities of texture and coloration. His work nods to the formal qualities of historical Greek and Roman pottery, experimenting with the timeless parts comprising a vessel, whereas additionally following a recent instinct. No two baskets are alike; delicate variations within the colours, weaves, and general type all emerge from the core components of sweetgrass, wooden from brown ash timber, dye, and meticulous consideration to element.

“Frey gathers every material that he uses in his practice—black ash, sweetgrass, cedar, spruce root, birch bark, and porcupine quills,” says Ramey Mize, Affiliate Curator of American Artwork on the Portland Museum of Artwork, the place the artist’s work is presently the main focus of the exhibition Woven. Mize provides that Frey “creates works of exquisite complexity that reflect not only his immense technical skill but also his profound ecological knowledge and relationship with the environment of the north woods.”

Woven continues in Portland, Maine, by September 15, then travels to the Artwork Institute of Chicago, the place it can open on October 26. Discover extra on Frey’s web site and Instagram.

 

an elaborate basket comprising baskets within baskets, woven from sweetgrass and dyed with stripes in the center

“Basket within Basket” (2012), ash, sweetgrass, and dye, 9 x 13 x 13 inches. Picture courtesy of Eric Stoner

a conical handmade basket made from dyed sweetgrass, where the bottom is much smaller than the wide opening at the top

“Duality” (2024), ash, sweetgrass, artificial dye, and granite, 14 3/8 x 13 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches. Picture courtesy of Karma, New York and Los Angeles

an "urchin" basket made from woven sweetgrass and dyed with bright blue and black to create geometric patterns

“Blue Point Urchin” (2016), ash, sweetgrass, and dye, 5 x 9 x 9 inches. Picture courtesy of Eric Stoner

an elaborate basket with a lid woven from sweetgrass and dyed with orange, red, and black to create an elaborate repeating pattern

“Observer” (2022), ash, sweetgrass, porcupine quill on birch bark, and dye, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Picture courtesy of Eric Stoner

a detail of a basket with red, black, and cream-colored textures

Element of “Observer”

an elaborate, tall basket woven from ash and sweetgrass, dyed blue and red to create a visually striking pattern

“Radiance” (2024), black ash, sweetgrass, and artificial dye, 22 x 12 inches. Picture courtesy of Karma, New York and Los Angeles

an elaborate, tall basket woven from sweetgrass and black ash, dyed with black and turquoise to create a striking visual pattern

“Legacy” (2024), black ash, sweetgrass, and artificial dye 22 x 11 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches. Picture courtesy of Karma, New York and Los Angeles

#baskets
#Indigenous tradition
#Jeremy Frey
#Maine
#weaving

 

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