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6, 9" x 9" works of torn papers, acrylic monoprints, threadwork, and book ephemera, sold as a set.

 

This series of Three Squares describes the long arc of love—the intense original tangle of two strangers, the seduction of overlapping dreams and fortunes, the slow build of memories, and the looking back over the journey that was. The Squares are built of torn cyanotype papers, monoprints, threadwork, and book ephemera. All images carry the tracery of the eucalyptus plant.

 

This original poem, imagining and marking the journey of love, has been hand typed on an old typewriter, bound inside khadi paper, and included in the series.

 

 

To tell the story in threads

is to tell the stitch to stray

out of its customary sequence.

It is to declare knots

a seduction and

lines among lines

propinquity.

 

It is to travel in one direction

and stop.

It is to reverse and then keep going,

and not to stop.

It is to be radicalized

by the needle’s pierce

and the lambent

enthusiasms of color.


It is to know

that the end will draw near,

the bobbin will rattle,

the spools will sit slackened

on their peg,

loosened now

by the lengths of time

by the picture, made,

which is to say bound

and now remembered.

The Long Arc of Love: Three Squared, 2024 by Beth Kephart

$2,750.00Price
Excluding Sales Tax
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