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Essential Question(s):
Essential Question(s):
How can art help us in a time of crisis?
Hartman will show a 119-piece portion of what eventually will be a wall “blanket” composed of 365 squares of embroidered paper. Each 4-by-5-inch square poses the question “What was beautiful today?” and then contains a typewritten description of what appeared to be of beauty on any given day.
For example, here’s how square No. 18 reads:
“What was beautiful today? Today, the sun shone in swathes that sequined like silver swells on an earthen sea. The air was redolent of smoke and soil. Blue sky, brown field; silver light and far away a farmer in blue jeans and a turquoise top walking next to a turquoise tractor.”
The piece is made in muted tones of white and cream.
“It’s a subtle piece,” Hartman said.
“The work is extremely slow to make, but its subject matter is about time’s slow passage and the significance or insignificance or each passing moment,” she wrote in a statement about the piece. “Though I wish I could produce more of this stitched work more quickly, I have accepted the organic pace that this kind of work requires.”
The piece is a companion to two other large-scale works that, all together, will become an installation, “An Imagined Survival/A Conjured Identity.” Hartman hopes to complete the work, which she’s been creating since 1999, in about two years.
From Lawrence Journal World, https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2003/jan/19/ku_art_faculty/
Using your responses to the question, "What was beautiful today?" create an artwork of your choice.
Using your responses to the question, "What was beautiful today?" create an artwork of your choice.
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