Material study · No. 08

Pierced Ground

Miʼkmaʼki · Atlantic East

Quill · bark · fixed unit

Colour steps
from the centre.

Dyed quills sit shoulder to shoulder in pierced birchbark. Every hue arrives as a distinct unit: pink, blue, orange and ivory meeting at clean, deliberate edges.

Not stitched. Punched through bark. Discrete colour · radial order

Eight directions

Living geometry
4 One module repeated · hard edges only
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