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Earth Quilt
Dorothy Tucker
'Cracks
can be caused by drying out, tension across a surface, impact or movement and
time.
Similar networks of lines, shapes and spaces can be traced on our hands and
faces,
in the structure of a leaf or vast tracks of land seen from the air.
Cracks appear in the pathways of earthquakes, drought and famine.
I crumple, crease and tear Asian paper, then reassemble and stitch the torn
shapes
onto Indian cotton. The work can be read as breaking apart or holding together.
Either way the Earth Quilt acknowledges and covers loss.' 124 x 124
cm