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MASTER OF HER CRAFT
them. So I follow that energy and the idea
of the vision I have.
I'm a breast cancer survivor. If you touch
the exterior of the cabinet, it's very smooth
and sensuous. And you'll notice it's shaped
like a woman's body. And if you look at
the center dark walnut piece, there are
these two knots that look like sagging
women's breasts.
NHH: So, it's like the central shape of
the dark piece?
LG: Right. Each form of the woman's body,
so to speak, moves away as a door, but
the central shape remains so that you still
know you're thinking about a woman's
body. The whole cabinet for me was speaking
about our cultural ideas of women's
beauty, going through breast cancer, and
the change of your female identity. Suddenly,
I was wondering, " Am I still going to
be okay, and pretty, or meet the standard? "
When you open the cabinet, there are
Grace works on a silver inlay for a piece while in her studio, River's Bend Woodworking Studio, in Plymouth.
maybe 100 ceramic breasts I made in different
colors. The interior of it is a waterstained
maple that I darkened with ashes,
because the whole experience was a dark
experience, a difficult experience. Each of
the breasts that were being removed was
somebody's life, a family's life, a mother's
life, a daughter, a sister. Where do all these
women go? Where do their lives go? Where
do their stories go? That was my way of
working through what I was dealing with.
NHH: I really like the violin cabinet you
made. During one exhibit you said you
were learning how to play the fiddle.
How is that going?
LG: Good. I just came back from a weekend
at Fiddle Hell (a music festival in Westford,
Massachusetts). What a ton of fun. Workshops,
classes, jams, music, concerts.
I've only been studying it about a year
and a half, so I have a lot of practicing to
do. I'm learning the fiddle and the mandolin.
I'm actually working on making a
mandolin. NHH
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Grace puts an ebony knob on her violin cabinet, which is solid sapele and black walnut, dyed black.
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