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Her Hands Know the Old Ways
Specifications:
12″H x 9.5″W x 9.5″D
Edition of 30
Price:
$3,600
Scott’s Piece Description
She’s thinking of her children, and her children’s children. Dinner that evening crosses her mind. As she weaves, the love of conversation makes her baskets even more beautiful. A memory of her grandmother passes gently in her mind….”Make sure the reeds are taught”. More words from grandmother’s spirit, “Always correct a mistake the moment it happens”.
Her grandmother’s baskets were prized. She’s often held a hope that her own baskets would be held with respect and that those she sold them to would know how much she cared to do her best. Anymore, there really is no thinking of ‘how’ to weave a basket. She goes into a reverie of ‘feeling’….she finds that it’s feelings she weaves, her love of life, of family. She remembers the last great lesson from the woman whose hands she loved to touch, “Be careful what you choose to feel while you work, for ‘that’ is what you weave into your baskets.”
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Curator Review
In Her Hands Know the Old Ways, Scott Rogers invites us into a moment of ancestral continuity—a quiet meditation where craft, memory, and lineage intertwine. The elder woman, seated in concentration, bends to her work not with urgency but reverence. Her hands move with confidence born of generations, guiding reeds into place as though following the rhythm of a song long remembered. The motion is second nature, the knowledge embedded in muscle and spirit.
Every detail in this sculpture—the bend of her head, the textured folds of her garments, the careful, irregular weave of the basket—tells a story not just of technique, but of care. Rogers captures something deeper than a woman weaving: he reveals a legacy in motion. The basket becomes more than a vessel; it’s a repository for stories, for unspoken wisdom passed from grandmother to granddaughter.
There’s a quiet dignity in this piece, a reverence for old ways that modern life often overlooks. Rogers honors not just the act of creation, but the feeling woven into each strand—a timeless reminder that what we create reflects what we carry within.
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