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Siesta Butte and the Turtle Pilgrimage
NOV 2021
For (Un)Cover Jouffre
Siesta Butte
Upholstered in Pierre Frey - Esteban (Gambas) with dyed leather piping
Stained white oak base + legs
Available for purchase through Adorno
Vintage Turtle Footstools
Reupholstered with remnants and Declercq Passimentiers trims
... And when the travelers came upon the divine topography they knew their pilgrimage was realized and so their songs grew silent. Once a resting place for drifter giants, a monolith remains and conjures questions of purpose and god’s whereabouts. The turtle pilgrims believe that there is no doubt of the spirit before them and that indelibility inherently implies importance. At the end of their journey but far from the end of the world, the travelers now rest in the gaze of the sun with the fleshy ridges of red earth acting as a personal daybed. “Maybe it is just daybeds all the way down,” speculates Rachel, the youngest of the turtle pilgrims.
Photographs by Sean Davidson