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Oversize Basket - Flora and Fauna Rainforest Design
$3,900.00
Code: IEWV016
Size: 33 3/4" (86 cms) tall
This particular beauty represents the apex of Wounaan basket making: the monster, oversized scale (standing at nearly 3 feet tall!) combined with the intensity of the tapestry-like rainforest composition is visually overwhelming. This masterpiece indigenous basket took the artist more than three years to complete (just the weaving alone, not to mention the preparation of the natural raw materials from her rainforest surroundings for her piece).
Almost narrative and yet abstracted at the same time, this flora and fauna-inspired design is sublime with a pleasing geometric finishing flourish around the lip. Like most of these indigenous Darien rainforest baskets, the underside of the piece features a beautiful design resolution: a kaleidoscopic mandala, or some culminating motif (decorating tip: these basket vessels are best displayed on a glass shelf in order to appreciate the incredible work on the underside!
These impressive rainforest baskets are made by virtue of two key elements: the endemic, wild palm tree species that provide the young fronds that are split and are the basic structure of the baskets, plus ancestral knowledge.
Size: 33 3/4" (86 cms) tall
This particular beauty represents the apex of Wounaan basket making: the monster, oversized scale (standing at nearly 3 feet tall!) combined with the intensity of the tapestry-like rainforest composition is visually overwhelming. This masterpiece indigenous basket took the artist more than three years to complete (just the weaving alone, not to mention the preparation of the natural raw materials from her rainforest surroundings for her piece).
Almost narrative and yet abstracted at the same time, this flora and fauna-inspired design is sublime with a pleasing geometric finishing flourish around the lip. Like most of these indigenous Darien rainforest baskets, the underside of the piece features a beautiful design resolution: a kaleidoscopic mandala, or some culminating motif (decorating tip: these basket vessels are best displayed on a glass shelf in order to appreciate the incredible work on the underside!
These impressive rainforest baskets are made by virtue of two key elements: the endemic, wild palm tree species that provide the young fronds that are split and are the basic structure of the baskets, plus ancestral knowledge.