Title: “THE THREE SISTERS”
Size: 18.5” W x 13.5” H (unframed)
Story:
The concept of “green, sustainable” gardening is not a new idea. Starting about 7,000 years ago in Central America and Mexico, then migrating north through the American Indians, the regimen of gardening known as the “Three Sisters” provided a wonderful basis for a diet, and optimum set of nutrients for the soil. The Sisters are corn, beans and squash. Planted together, the beans climb the corn stalks, and provide nitrogen for the soil and corn. The squash leaves spread out and cover a huge area that inhibits any other vegetation and protects the corn roots. The Spanish discovered this and brought squash back to Europe where it eventually found culinary homes in France and Italy. It wasn’t until about 30 years ago America discovered squash. Today, go to any farmer’s market and enjoy the rich, cross-breeding that creates a multitude of tasty flavors, colors and sizes.
Materials:
Acrylic and fluorescent paints on heavy watercolor paper, bordered with insets from a mid-1800’s Japanese grocer’s ledger of accounts, accented with four Chinese 16th – 17th century cash coins, affixed with melted religious wax collected from holy temples and monasteries, with outside panels of embossed “cloud” paper from Asia bathed in acrylic paints, then gilded, all mounted onto archival museum board.
For more information and pricing please contact Thomas Anthony Gallery in Park City, UT at 435-645-8078.
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