Her head is over six feet tall, made up of 104 bead-like ceramic objects. Her hair is woven fabric, long enough to attach to the surrounding walls. And she speaks. She is entitled Everything Anywhere and she is installed this summer at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe. Her creator is the busy young New Mexico-based ceramic artist Cannupa Hanska Luger.
Cannupa explains the unusual process he followed in creating Everything Anywhere, a work he hopes will express a "matriarchal" form of embrace.
In this longer version of the conversation, Cannupa discusses the complex audio component of his installation.
chenuppa_interview_long_version.mp3