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Joan Schulze
A Long Time Ago, 2017Silk, paper, cotton; glue transferred images, machine quilted.
47” x 55”___
once upon a time, a long time ago
a smoky haze
surrounded the bowl
nested in the kiln to be
hardened by time and heat
transforming the clay
Joan Schulze___
Visual Description of Artwork
This quilt is composed of some twenty-odd black and white images of the Chinese ceramic bowl at the heart of this exhibit. In 2016, on returning from exhibiting her work in China, the artist received the patterned bowl wrapped in layers of Chinese-language newsprint. This quilt shows a grid of images, which are transfers of photographs from the artist’s unpacking of the bowl. In the grid are images of the bowl in different stages of being unwrapped, and different versions of the bowl, in different sizes and photographed from different angles, “float” around the grid. There is an inky, “printed” texture to the quilt.
