Karen Sixkiller
ᏣᎳᎩ "Cherokee" Artist
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First Place Winner - Division VI - Three Dimensional Art
Cancer Sticks - Beaded Cigarettes in matching hand-held ashtray display stands
Eight trompe-l'œil beaded cigarettes with skull and crossbones design each in a matching ceramic ashtray display base in the colors:
1. Light Orange, 2. Dark Orange, 3. Yellow, 4. Lime Green, 5. Kelly Green, 6. Gold, 7. Metallic Rose, 8. Melaic Green.
Dimensions: 4” H x 2.5” W x 1.5” D each cigarette/ashtray
Materials & Techniques: Faceted size 13 antique French seed beads and modern colored size 13 glass beads woven using Peyote stitch over a padded stick. Millefiori glass bead as the burning end. Glazed and stained ceramic ashtray formed in the hand. Created to provide some truth in advertising, these beaded ‘Cancer Sticks’ remind everyone how sacred tobacco has been corrupted into little 15 minute doses of death.
(Alone this set of beaded sculptures won the Judges Choice award at Cherokee Art Market 2014. In 2022 I created matching ashtray display stands and the updated set won a Blue Ribbon at SWAIA 2023 “Santa Fe Indian Market”.)
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