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My Body is Your Nest

Artist Farraday Newsome (American, born 1955)

Date2022

MediumGlazed terracotta

DimensionsOverall: 24 1/2 × 24 1/2 × 9 inches (62.23 × 62.23 × 22.86 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hiram E. Stockwell and Michael Bradley

Object number2025.60

On View

Not on view

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DescriptionA charger on which natural and human-made objects are arrayed, from foliage to butterflies, sea sponge, playing cards, and a wristwatch, radiating around a central nest of bird's eggs around which a serpent coils.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

“Farraday Newsome: Memento Vitae, My Body is Your Nest,” Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona, December 13, 2024‒March 16, 2025 (no. 1).

Provenance

The artist;

With Hiram E. Stockwell, Topeka, Kansas, by 2024;

His gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2025.

Published References

Glen R. Brown, Tiffany A. Fairall, and Mary L. Serantoni. Farraday Newsome: Memento Vitae, My Body is Your Nest, exh. cat. (Mesa, AZ: Wild Senna Publications, 2025): cat. 1, pp. 22, 75 (ill.)

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