Plough path

A log-cabin patchwork of wool fabric, dyed in shades of brown, yellow, grey and indigo and marked with black rust marks.

Partly systematic and partly random, this cloth was part of an assessment last year.  Too hard to find my own words, I liked this from Rebecca Solnit in As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art (University of Georgia Press, 2001, p 58)

the artist as collaborator or midwife for a world that already has meaning and order, rather than an autocratic creator imposing meaning upon an inert, waiting world or making a better one out of nothing.

Rebecca Solnit

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