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Fragile and Precious

By Mary Down 2018
An installation as part of Harpenden Arts Festival, responding to the festival theme of 'Beauty Abundance and Order. 30 gold bowls. The bowls also referenced biblical examples of golden bowls returned from exile to furnish a restored temple in Jersusalem and golden bowls full of incense in a viision of a new Jerusalem.

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