Blanket Stories: Transportation Object, Generous Ones, Trek

A sculpture commissioned for the Haub Family Galleries at the Tacoma Art Museum

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Deborah Hammond
Tacoma, WA
Tags
Baby blanket, Sickness and health

This baby blanket was a gift from a patient in 1981. I felt like I didn’t deserve her gratitude since I so mishandled the care of her terminal illness. This realization inspired me to learn hospice care, which determined the direction of most of my subsequent professional life.