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Briefly Noted: Green Textiles
Many of the baskets, tapestries,
and quilts in Green: The Color and the Cause at the
Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., are visually intriguing, but
unfortunately the environmental theme required a series of
hectoring artist statements. The exhibit, which closed in
September, mixes old fabrics, such as a fourth-century Roman
tapestry featuring a female figure, with contemporary
weavings.
Emily Dvorin’s Verdundant, a spiky basket resembling an alien cactus concocted of green electrical wire, electrical connectors, and cable ties, is said to be “a commentary on overconsumption of commercial goods, societal excess, and throwaway consumerism.” Objects such as Emily DuBois’ exquisitely woven fig leaf and Ruth Marshall’s knitted life-sized facsimile of a flayed jaguar skin are visually captivating and don’t need to be justified by strained and tendentious “green” rhetoric. —Ronald Bailey
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Emily DuBois|3.18.12 @ 9:16PM|#
the comments were by the Textile Museum curators. my "Fig Leaf" series originated in an exhibit of merkins (pubic wigs.)