Installations by Cate Bourke

  • Installations
    • Reflections on 100 Bowls
      • I Shall Never Tire
        • Study in Black and White
          • Covenant
            • 42 Clay Patriots
              • Crewel Linen: Unfinished Business
              • Works in Progress
                • Mail Art 2011/Community Building 101
                • Biography
                • Reviews/Remarks
                • Contact
                • Nicaragua Dreaming
                • Mudworks Blog

                Patriot Act: Defense/Offense

                Patriot Act is a work in progress. Completion date: Spring 2012.

                Patriot Act is an inquiry as to  how we (U.S. citizens) see ourselves and how the U.S. is viewed globally.

                Patriot Act  involves hybrid tea rose thorns, monstrous thorns that protect magnificent flowers, and tthe American flag.  Specifically, the American flag that was handed to me at my mother's--- Marion Walter Byrne's---gravesite.

                My mother served in  the first contingent of the  U.S. Women's Army Corps (WAC) in the 1940s, yet she taught me not to play with guns.  She knew all too well of the permanece of the tools of death, yet (and this came as a shock to me) she was willing to kill to maintain our "American Way of Life"....


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