Marianne Nicolson discusses her relationship as an artist to museums, and the process of reacquiring knowledge that had been previously removed from her community. She goes on to discuss how she addresses this within her art.
Her discussion of the use of glass within her works, and within other structures, such as the Museum of Anthropology’s own architectural design brings up interesting ideas of accessibility and denial of access, as one is able to see through the material, yet is denied entry into the institution or piece.
Nicolson discusses how her use of glass within her pieces confronts this idea of accessibility, and represents her own conflicted ideas about this, as she has to create a line between what should be shared about her culture and what needs to remain private within the community, and thus deny the masses access.
