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by Margaret Pope
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- Creator: Margaret Pope
- Date: 2025
- Location: Erma Hayman House
- Types: assemblages (sculpture)
- Materials: metal, thread
Margaret Pope explores how Boise lies at the intersection of
dueling contradictory visions - a romanticized, individualistic,
masculine, rugged version of the West, and a growing urban
hub that is the center of politics and culture in Idaho.
For this work I have deconstructed barbed wire, a material
long tied to rural land, ownership, and division, by unraveling
its strands and reconnecting them with embroidery thread.
The barbed fragments are bound with dark red thread, and
the non-barbed segments with soft pinks.
The wire is transformed through cutting and rebinding, taking
on new configurations that cross, tangle, and intersect. The
physical act of dismantling and reconnecting the barbed wire
is a transformative process that reimagines the materials
rigidity and function.
This piece was selected as the winner of the juried American Contradictions: A Boise Visual Chronicle Exhibition in 2025.
