Marian Lyndgaard & Susan Snipes
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Recorded August 1, 2026. In this UNDERSTORY Session, gallery director Susan Snipes talks with artist Marian Lyndgaard about Entangled Communications, a piece made especially for Darkness. Marian works with fabric — heirloom scraps passed down through her family alongside discarded remnants — filled with batting, Poly-Fil, and in some pieces, soil. Some sections were buried directly in the prairie restoration site near her home in Minnesota, in the same spaces where she pulls invasive species and plants new seeds. Marian talks about the parallel she sees between quilting and prairie restoration — both rooted in care, both quietly essential systems working underground — and what it means to give old, half-forgotten fabric a second, active life.