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Last of the Great Matriarchs

By Claire Douglass 2006

Douglass

Dimensions
125cm x 118cm x 140cm

Unwanted, hand-knitted garments are used to make this matriarch a palanquin of comfort in which she may carry her infant. The weight of her efforts, welcome or not threatens to snap her shapely ankles. All those unasked for acts of love and self-sacrifice, potentially nurturing and smothering simultaneously.
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The Garden of Earthly Delights Detail

Shadow box, Utopia

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