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Artworks
Joan Schulze
Not So Long Ago, 2017Silk, paper, cotton; glue transferred images, machine quilted.
47” x 55”___
once upon a time, no so long ago
this bowl, this precious object
cared for, used and admired
passed from one to another
then given as a gift
to one who received it
with delight and surprise
Joan Schulze___
Visual Description of Artwork
This largely black and white quilt features repeated transferred photographic images of a Chinese ceramic bowl, patterned with brush-stroked design. An array of 8 images of the bowl, on a white background - two rows of four bowls each - is surrounded by versions of the same bowl, and perhaps the same photograph, that have been altered, or distorted. Some versions are duplicates, some versions distort the shape of the bowl in some way - as if we are viewing it through water. These multiple images of the bowl, which fill, roughly, a 5 by 5 grid, are bordered left and right by white panels stitched with black thread, echoing the abstract calligraphic pattern on the bowl.
