Breaux Bridge (pg.5 of 5): Chênes Brûlée, a found-art piece
found art sculpture for the story “Breaux Bridge series” (pg.5 of 5): the search for my Cajun grandmother’s ancestral homestead, an 1800s sugarcane farm on Bayou Teche
Laura Stella Sitges
Breaux Bridge (pg.4 of 5): Changes come to 20th century Cajun ways
. . . the church auctioned off the house for a dollar to anyone who would move it off the property, and they did; floated it down the bayou to the other side . . . what I pulled out from under leaf litter a foot thick, amidst a scattering of massive iron hooks, levers and free weights, was the arm of a 1910 farm scale, its wooden cabinet long rotted to dust, abandoned since my great great uncle died in 1942.
Breaux Bridge (pg.3 of 5): Remnants of a 19th century Cajun homestead on Bayou Teche
Breaux Bridge (pg.3 of 5): Discovering my grandmother’s Cajun ancestors and their 19th cent. sugarcane farm on Bayou Teche
Breaux Bridge (pg.2 of 5): My grandmother’s Cajun ancestors
Breaux Bridge series (pg.2 of 5): Discovering my grandmother’s Cajun ancestors and their 19th cent. sugarcane farm on Bayou Teche
Breaux Bridge (pg.1 of 5): A 19th cent. Cajun sugarcane farm
Breaux Bridge (pg.1 of 5): Discovering my grandmother’s Cajun ancestors on a 19th cent. sugarcane farm on Bayou Teche
Broken Violin at Sea
Creating a wall sculpture assemblage from my grandfather’s broken violin, his chess pieces and Mardi Gras krewe favors & his 1890s Art Nouveau brush
“Tisolay’s Favorite Things” – my last drawing for my grandmother
In 1998, I began the last drawing I would ever do for Tisolay. I knew … Read more
Papa Sitges’ Meerschaum Pipe
Single piece showcase/Research in progress – I have always thought of this as my … Read more
My Dad’s Ghein bell: from 1580s Belgium to 1940s Haiti
My dad found this in a cave in the hills above Port-au-Prince, Haiti when he was a kid looking for hidden voodoo stuff. After Katrina, it was one of only two things he wanted me to break into his condo and take home before the looters got to them. “The rest I don’t give a hoot about. Bring your gun.”