Tallapoosa Art

The Tallapoosa from Okfuskee to Tuckabatchee

My Moore (Muskogee/Scots) ancestors lived near Moore’s Creek (now County Line Creek) which was across the river from Tuckabatchee. They are listed on the 1832 Creek census records of Thlakatchka & Okefuskee Echee Sehogee Town. I imagined the land as it was then, with open land, forests, streams, homes and fields. The pigment is clay collected from the roadside near County Line Creek (where it had been brought in during road construction).

What Kudzu Hides

I have long been fascinated with kudzu, the invasive plant brought into the South in the 20th century to stop erosion. I viewed it as obscurance, suffocation, and suppression. An artist friend said she viewed it as whiteness. Here, a kudzu vine basket created by an Alabama craftsperson sits above artifacts, a bowl and arrowheads that are from the Gadsden Museum of Art collection.

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