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Blackthorn Sea Barriers

By Frances Carlile 2020
Small thorn sculpture, plated in copper. The second sculpture to accompany the Falling Light woodcuts. About rising sea levels.
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Towards the Fold

North Wind detail

Woodcut Falling Light 3.

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