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Anina Major Crimson Tide, (Sister Trophies series)
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Anina Major Crimson Tide, (Sister Trophies series)
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Anina Major
b.1981
Crimson Tide,(Sister Trophies series)
Executed in 2025.
Glazed stoneware
8 x 6.5 x 5 in. (20.32 x 16.51 x 12.7 cm)
Anina Major
b.1981
Crimson Tide,(Sister Trophies series)
Executed in 2025.
Glazed stoneware
8 x 6.5 x 5 in. (20.32 x 16.51 x 12.7 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and TERN Gallery, Nassau, The Bahamas
Anina Major's work examines the negotiation of the relationship between self and place by producing artefacts that invoke and embody her Bahamian heritage. Straw dolls are common tourist items found in the Nassau Straw Market, where Anina's grandmother worked and where the artist herself would help out, learning straw craft at her Grammy’s feet. By appropriating the cultural symbol of the straw doll, the artist is urging audiences to consider the value of individualism versus commonality. Her ceramic weaving technique, developed through her mission to redefine the value of the labor, materials, and people associated with straw doll production.
The “sister trophies” are very dear to the artist. When she was quite newly migrated to the US, she came across a discarded straw doll in a flea market; she relates how they both observed each other in this cold, foreign space, considering their respective journeys that took them north. Major “repatriated” this particular straw doll by acquiring her and giving here a home in her own studio. Wherever this doll is, there is a little slice of The Bahamas and is how Anina roots herself at home, in her memories and with her Grammy, while still working as an expatriate. The doll therefore continues to have significance and does not require a foreigner's gaze to endow meaning.
This particular ceramic doll Crimson Tide has a cowrie shell placed on her chest. The cowrie shell is symbolic of so many themes: fortune, fertility, and protection and on the dolls they serve as a charm embedded within the piece. This relates back to the Major's original feelings about the straw doll and its ability to hold deeper meaning outside of the tourist market. Unlike many of her sisters, Crimson Tide is also functional and her straw hat is left open on top, allowing the vessel to be used as a functional object.
Anina works with several galleries from Los Angeles to New York to Cologne, but the Straw Doll series is only sold through her hometown gallery, TERN, based in Nassau on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas. Each doll is unique and most recently a suite was exhibited at MoAD’s “Unruly Navigations” exhibition, curated by Key Jo Lee.
b.1981
Crimson Tide,(Sister Trophies series)
Executed in 2025.
Glazed stoneware
8 x 6.5 x 5 in. (20.32 x 16.51 x 12.7 cm)
Anina Major
b.1981
Crimson Tide,(Sister Trophies series)
Executed in 2025.
Glazed stoneware
8 x 6.5 x 5 in. (20.32 x 16.51 x 12.7 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and TERN Gallery, Nassau, The Bahamas
Anina Major's work examines the negotiation of the relationship between self and place by producing artefacts that invoke and embody her Bahamian heritage. Straw dolls are common tourist items found in the Nassau Straw Market, where Anina's grandmother worked and where the artist herself would help out, learning straw craft at her Grammy’s feet. By appropriating the cultural symbol of the straw doll, the artist is urging audiences to consider the value of individualism versus commonality. Her ceramic weaving technique, developed through her mission to redefine the value of the labor, materials, and people associated with straw doll production.
The “sister trophies” are very dear to the artist. When she was quite newly migrated to the US, she came across a discarded straw doll in a flea market; she relates how they both observed each other in this cold, foreign space, considering their respective journeys that took them north. Major “repatriated” this particular straw doll by acquiring her and giving here a home in her own studio. Wherever this doll is, there is a little slice of The Bahamas and is how Anina roots herself at home, in her memories and with her Grammy, while still working as an expatriate. The doll therefore continues to have significance and does not require a foreigner's gaze to endow meaning.
This particular ceramic doll Crimson Tide has a cowrie shell placed on her chest. The cowrie shell is symbolic of so many themes: fortune, fertility, and protection and on the dolls they serve as a charm embedded within the piece. This relates back to the Major's original feelings about the straw doll and its ability to hold deeper meaning outside of the tourist market. Unlike many of her sisters, Crimson Tide is also functional and her straw hat is left open on top, allowing the vessel to be used as a functional object.
Anina works with several galleries from Los Angeles to New York to Cologne, but the Straw Doll series is only sold through her hometown gallery, TERN, based in Nassau on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas. Each doll is unique and most recently a suite was exhibited at MoAD’s “Unruly Navigations” exhibition, curated by Key Jo Lee.