Nora Naranjo-Morse

Nora Naranjo-Morse's Always Becoming, commissioned in 2007, is a family of contemporary clay sculptures hand-built on site in the summer of 2007 from a mud mixture of soil, sand, straw, and water, along with clay, stone, black locust wood, and pigments. Naranjo-Morse and her family return annually to explore how the sculptures change over time. To the artist, these living art pieces represent growth, transformation, and Native peoples' relationships with the land, with each sculpture expressing the importance of a sense of self and place. More than a decade later, weather has reshaped and repurposed the sculptures Little One, Father, and Mother, and insects, birds, and small animals find shelter in them, showing that nature thrives even on busy Washington, DC, streets.

Washington, District of Columbia · United States