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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Philip Bowker
Bend, OR
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Childhood

Every night my parents would tuck me into bed when I was growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.

They would tuck the sides of the blanket in so tight that I could not move. Not only was a stuck in the supine position, trapped by my blanket, it was so tight I could not even have my feet straight up, they had to be rolled to the side to fit!