Artist Statement

Marian Lyndgaard
And So On And So On


Through prairie restoration of returning native seeds to the land, my family and I care for the place where we live in layers of group relationships: with family, neighbors, the township, but never alone. Our prairie gardens work alongside restoration actions by the state of Minnesota and my neighborhood, as I teach my sons to collect and disperse seeds. And So On And So On brings together scraps of fabric to create a floor quilt, transforming unusable materials into a space to bring a group interaction together. My quilt collects smaller embroidered pieces representing my personal experience that, in the context of the larger quilt, refer to the altered landscape of industrialized farming that has been so harmful to my family. My family can not fix a broken land. We can fix a broken relationship between humans and the rest of the world that will allow for the land to heal.