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The Clouded Mirror
enamel, copper, mica, mirror, wood
26 1/2” x 10” x 2”
journeys in the world. These ‘familiars’ of Martha’ puppet from Burma, the blue jaguar from Mexico ness to and shared in the accretion of her work an objects to help her narrate her tale, giving them t ures lend her imagery both allegorical power as w used throughout history for narrating personal an artworks—is textiles. Cloth provides powerful me warp and weft threads of weaving, an allegory for humanity’s innate fascination with and need for p research about tattoos through her decades of tr connection between skin, cloth, and selfhood is a she references significant textile patterns that ov
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