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After the Gold Rush

scanned from the Guardian newspaper

Dimensions
170 x 50 x 5 cm (overall), longest tube 3.8 diameter x 125 cm long

Created in 2004 to highlight controversial issues surrounding gene patenting, "Your Genes in Their Hands" has now been reworked and renamed "After the Gold Rush" to celebrate the June 2013 Supreme Court ruling overturning thirty years of patent awards. Materials: wire, beads, perspex tubing Techniques: hand-woven Inkle braids
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