acrylic paint, cotton, birch bark, leather and muskrat fur on Arches Cover.
The face in the middle of the glove looked to me like a wound. The glove represents the state of Michigan, which looks like a mitten on any map of today. The fur reminds me of the French fur trade which was the reason Michigan was settled by Europeans in the first place.
The entire painting is a "mappa mundi" - a map of the world. Traditionally these beautiful and puzzling (to us) ancient maps were not precise maps such as we know today, but served as well to teach morality lessons as much as a somewhat poorly understood geography.
Thus my mappa mundi speaks of a wounded world.
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