Sue's art show, "What the Weave"

Sue was a hair dresser before she retired about ten years ago. I'm sure she was a skilled and creative hair dresser. But retirement let her blossom. She began writing poetry -- very good poetry, good enough to win the Kathrine  Lee Bates annual poetry contest twice already. She has not given up poetry but has turned to collage and to weaving. At present she has a show of over 40 small-ish woven pieces at the Falmouth  (Mass - Cape Cod) Art Center. They are fascinating, most made of yarn, but some using other materials like paper, plastic, wire.  All are fairly small and I was delighted to see that some had red "sold" stickers on them when I went to the show about ten days ago. 

The first piece encountered is this one with the banana. Those who read about the big-bucks art world with their annual art shows in various cities in Europe and the US, will remember that last spring the talk of the show (Miami? Basel? somewhere) was a a banana affixed to the wall with a piece of duct tape. I believe it sold for $120.000 - and the purchaser ate the banana.  Sue's piece is a bit smaller and she replaces the banana every 3 days and has put a purchase price -- due to the fact that weaving takes more time and skill than smacking on a piece of duct tape -- at $1250,000. She doesn't expect it to sell but did ask that her friends do a selfie with the art. I had a regular camera but here I am with the immortal banana piece.  (Remember, if you click on the photo, you will enlarge it enough to see the weaving more clearly.)