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SUMMARY: 

The Song (Sculpture)
 

Through a Gold Window

Paintings

Series of Drawings

Golden Staff

Small Sculptures

Passage into a Paper Sea

Through A Gold Window Costume

from an exhibition at the Bolinas Museum

The Song

2006-08
The Song (“Naki Goe”) 12' by 4.5' by 4'
Mixed media including Japanese urushi

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DETAILS OF STICK:

The areas around face and on the long stick above are made with Japanese urushi and gold dust (kanshitsu or dry lacquer.) The stick can be unscrewed into little pieces for packing or dancing;

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Paintings

from an exhibition at the Bolinas Museum

Tokyo Walk
1995
Water pastel, colored pencil on hand-made paper

Sha Sha Higby: When I had a grant from the Japan-US Friendship Commission in Tokyo, I would go out every day for a walk and remembering impressions, I sketched onto this paper. I was planning to tear and make it into a costume, as you can see, with the pieces.

At Dinner
1996
Water pastel, colored pencil on hand-made paper

Sha Sha Higby: In a restaurant. I made all sorts of

Drawings

(Series of Drawings) Untitled, I to VIII
2008
Pencil, colored pencil on paper

Sha Sha Higby: Morning studies for the sculpture. Could not decide whether to dance or draw in the morning.

Landscape
1972
Pencil on paper

Sha Sha Higby: Though I do not make many drawings for the costumes, I love to draw. When I make the objects there are many technical manipulations over a long period of time, but a drawing records the moment.

Golden Staff

Golden Staff
2008
Japanese lacquer on wood bolted together with screws

Sha Sha Higby: This piece is modular and can be broken into 2 ft lengths for travel. I will use and have used it in performances. Note that it is similar to the black stick in Naki Goe (The Song) in that it unscrews apart.

from an exhibition at the Bolinas Museum