Airbark Basket #4

Airbark Basket #4 is the most recent of John Garrett's works in the Museum's collection. He has woven discarded shreds of tires into a vessel form bound with lengths of industrial copper wire. When we look at all three pieces by Garrett that have been acquired by the Museum, we can tell that his weaving has grown looser and more energetic over the years. Airbark Basket #4 suggests a whirlwind of creativity that, if only for a moment, brings a "bunch of junk" together into a beautiful work of art. For an artist who likes the idea of recycling, it's appropriate that a work like this seems just about to explode into the bits that went into creating it.