Salt Bag c. 20th century

This Salt Bag, from an unknown time and place, is made of fabric, beads and tassels, and, like painting, it embraces process. The colors here feel so elemental: red like earth, black like night, cream like dawn. The texture, though, it’s what really grabs me. See how the tassels hang, like little drips of paint frozen in time? Each one is slightly different, a testament to the hand that made it. And those beads, scattered like stars against the dark fabric, they catch the light and draw you in. I think of a Cy Twombly sculpture, something so simple and direct, yet full of poetry. This bag is the same. It’s humble, functional, but also deeply beautiful. Art is, after all, just an ongoing conversation, each piece building on what came before. It’s a reminder that beauty can be found in the everyday, in the things we use and touch.