Nora Naranjo-Morse

In 2007, Nora Naranjo-Morse hand-built on site a family of contemporary clay sculptures titled Always Becoming, using a mud mixture of soil, sand, straw, and water along with clay, stone, black locust wood, and pigments. She 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, as well as the importance of a sense of self and place. Moon Woman and Mountain Bird are now elders within this intergenerational sculptural family, which speaks to stewardship and the passing of knowledge and traditions, and to learning from the past while caring for what is held in the present with conscious grace and purpose.

Washington, District of Columbia · United States