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Marie Watt, Door, 2005. Color woodcut. © 2005 Marie Watt
Marie Watt, Three Ladders, 2005. Lithograph with chine-collé. © 2005 Marie Watt

Marie Watt
American, member of the Seneca Nation of Indians, b. 1967

Door, 2005
Color woodcut

Three Ladders, 2005
Lithograph with chine-collé
© 2005 Marie Watt

Towering forms rise skyward in these small artworks. Though modest in size, Marie Watt explores substantial ideas connected to her Indigenous ancestry in these works. According to the Seneca Nation creation story, Sky Woman, after falling from the sky, builds the earth with the help of various animals. The artist references this essential story in Three Ladders through symbolic motifs: a ladder, a climbing star quilt pattern, and blanket stack connecting land and sky. Structures of folded blankets, also featured in Door, play a central role in Watt’s multidisciplinary practice, and serve as monuments of collective histories.