On View
Visual Arts Gallery
Exhibition
Reclaiming My Time
Created by
Scott, Sheldon, American, born 1976
Date
2022
Medium
paint on cotton (fiber) and wood with steel chains
Dimensions
H x W x D: 140 × 60 × 4 in. (355.6 × 152.4 × 10.2 cm)
L x W (Flat): 166 15/16 × 20 1/2 × 1 1/16 in. (424 × 52 × 2.7 cm)
Description
Rope Hammock by Sheldon Scott. The handwoven, sculptural, rope hammock is constructed primarily with raw, white, cotton rope coated with black paint. The hammock features a woven net sling, squared spreader-bars at the head and foot of the hammock, and a set of clews at the end points where the hammock is gathered together. The sling is rectangular in shape and is woven in a traditional diamond pattern. It is suspended between the two, black painted spreader-bars which holds the shape of the sling. Each clew has twelve nettles hitched to a single, black painted, steel ring. The nettles have been woven into a V-shaped clew knot and the ends have been threaded through the twenty-four holes drilled into each spreader-bar. Also attached to the top of each clew ring is a short length of black painted chain.
Place made
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
Cultural Place
Pawley Island, South Carolina, United States, Sea Islands, North and Central America
Classification
Visual Arts
Type
hammocks
fiber art
Topic
American South
Art
Communities
Cotton
Craftsmanship
Identity
Recreation
Slavery
Textile design
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Object number
2023.98
Restrictions & Rights
© Sheldon Scott
Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd560430105-8803-4588-9f80-4d89c4d361dd

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