Nicholas Drake: How is your project for the Spolcto Festival related to earlier installations like Noah's Raven?
Mary Lucier: Noah's Raven (1993) evolved from a couple of sources. One was that my mother had cancer for over three years. l went through the entire process with her, making this piece for her. The piece is also tied into my way of looking at the relationship between the body and the land. I wanted to look at scarring as a common issue that could be seen as benign or malignant. Some scars are beneficial scars in that a disease has been cured. Other scars are the scars of destruction.
