Coss_M 2024 Too Much to Carry

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Name/Title

Coss_M 2024 Too Much to Carry

Artwork Details

Medium

steel, cast bronze, cast aluminum, cast cement and salt

Made/Created

Artist

Mary Coss

Date made

2024

Dimensions

Height

3 in

Width

17 in

Depth

5 in

Dimension Notes

3’x17’x5’

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Collection of the Artist

General Notes

Note Type

Exhibited

Note

Vestibule Gallery 2023, James W. Washington, Jr.: Many Hats, One Spirit; Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge, WA 2025 (partial installation shown)

Note

Too Much to Carry is a sculptural installation on ancestral migration and the weight of displacement. Rusting wire, bronze, and suitcases evoke erosion and endurance, carrying stories of silence, loss, and survival. An abstracted boat holds wire-scripted names of my foremothers, referencing their 1851 voyage during the Highland Clearances. The work reflects on what we inherit, remember, and carry forward.