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Land Sentence: Arbour, Woven Tapestry, 2009, 83 x 205 cm

A sentence is the basic unit of communication, a meaningful statement. In this series sentence also references the punishment imposed by mankind on the environment.

Aerial and satellite photographs provide beautiful yet unnerving images of pollution, erosion, deforestation and infestation; technology that records our complex and destructive relationship to the world around us.

Through the slow and intimate process and flawed language of tapestry weaving I am reinterpreting and rewriting the dispassionate certainty of these technological sources to refocus on our complicity in the sentencing of the world we live in.

To view more of Kidd’s work visit her new website www.janekidd.net

Visitors at “Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor” an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum that Thomas P. Campbell curated in 2007

“Ending months of fervid speculation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached into its own ranks on Tuesday and chose Thomas P. Campbell, a 46-year-old English-born tapestries curator, to succeed Philippe de Montebello as director and chief executive.”

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submitted by Oriane Stender, Brooklyn, NY

PRIME presents tapestry, works on paper, and a newly released book on the life works of Tamara Jaworska. Jaworska’s skill as an artist-weaver belongs to the disciplines that were born more than five hundred years ago, while the pictorial essence of her tapestries is pure twentieth century-dynamic and original in design, splendid in colours and filled with new and surprising forms. The Polish and later Canadian nature and landscape has always played a very significant role in the character of her vision. Her most recent work “Free Verses”/” Vers Libre” revealed the artist at the height of her powers and indicated even more the remarkable range of her talents.