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Cold Liberty

By  Karen Melvin 2013
A montage of photographs and painting digitally printed with pigment on Hahnemuhle cotton rag paper, part of the series Marginal Extinctions. This scroll contains images of melting ice, flying birds and the Statue of Liberty.
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