'Anticipation' is now on display at the Intiman Theater at the Seattle Center in conjunction with the Global Health Exhibit in the next 50 plaza. The piece illustrates a segment of PATH's Sure Start program in India. The border represents the 200 rupees (each disk is the size of a 2 rupee coin) needed to transport a woman in labor to a safe health care facility instead of giving birth at home where mortality rates are very high. 200 rupees is about $10. and that's what it takes to save the life of a new born and the mother. The father in the piece is putting a coin into a traditional terracotta bank, held by his daughter, as savings towards the cost of transportation. The piece has an excerpt from a poem by Swami Vivekananda, that is embroidered, which reads:
Before the sun, the moon, the earth,
Before the stars or comets free,
Before e'en time has had its birth,
I was, I am, and I will be.
The fiberwork is made out of cotton, silk, linen and mylar. The rupee border is also a take on shisha embroidery in India that uses tiny mirrors to repel the evil eye.
This was such a fun piece to work on and I'm happy to have it eventually go to PATH's Seattle offices.
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