Blanket Stories: Talking Stick, Works Progress, Steward

A site-specific installation commissioned by Curator Faith Brower and the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon

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Dustin Cockerham
Bend, OR
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Fathers

During a routine garbage-picking day, my father and I found an old camouflage sleeping bag. The zippers were broken or missing and the stuffing falling out around the seams. Despite its worn-down appearance, it was large and padded. We used it for years as a comfortable barrier to lay between us and the gravel while we worked on old cars together.