Which Will You Feed

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy.

"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego." He continued, "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

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Medium: Cotton Fabric
Thread
Poly-Fill
Lentils
Copper Wire
Acrylic Paint

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Task: Create a stencil or stamp, and hand-stamp fabric. Then take that fabric, and create three forms that interact with one another somehow.

My stencil design, which I then stamped onto the fabric, is my name "Katherine" just written in the Cherokee alphabet, encompassed inside a medicine wheel.

I wanted to do something to honor my Cherokee ancestry. I don't often tell people, but I'm actually a tribesmember...I don't talk about it much because I feel I have no right to, since I live away from the Tribe, and know so little about my heritage and culture. I'm not pure-blooded.

So, I took my favorite Cherokee legend, and turned it into 3D! It was very hard and time consuming, but I enjoyed it greatly. You can't tell much, but there are magnets in the wolves' mouths, and in the dog bone, so they can fight over it.

Which will you feed?