VESSEL

Cathy Adelman
Jody Alexander
Brien Beidler
Sarah Bryant
Rebecca Chamlee
Taylor Cox
Coleen Curry
Cathy DeForest
Erik & Martin Demaine
Tim Ely
Anna Embree
Ethan Ensign
Don Etherington
Jennifer Evers
Jodee Fenton
Erin Fletcher
Madelyn Garrett
Jane Gryffith
Karen Hanmer
Rose Harms
Monica Holtsclaw
Deborah Howe
Susan Hulme
Lang Ingalls
Jill Krase
Dorothy Simpson Krause
Monique Lallier
Amy LeePard
Suzanne Moore
Melanie Mowinski
Jeff Nilan
Bonnie Thompson Norman
Jan Owen
Graham Patten
Todd Pattison
Michelle Ray
Sialia Rieke
Steph Rue
Tenille Shuster
Therese Swift-Hahn
Peter Thomas
Colin Urbina

Madelyn Garrett
South Jordan, Utah

Madelyn Garrett is an artist, art historian, former rare book curator, and book conservator. She is most interested in the historical book, and her work often references the books and book forms of the past.

Madelyn Garrett

Sekhmet's Casket

A votive offering of personal archaeology, Sekhmet's Casket includes objects of memory; talismans, amulets, and fetish intimations; vestigial fragments; oblations and immolations. Miniature books, maps, "newspaper clippings," and descriptive cards provide additional context for this supplication to Egypt's lion-headed goddess.
Papyrus, paper, silk, inks and acrylics, sand, semi-precious gems, herbs and essential oils, repurposed antique wooden writing case.
8 x 10.5 x 4 inches; 20.5 x 26.5 x 10 centimeters. Created 2015.