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Embroidering
the Earth's Mantle
1961
Oil on Masonite
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| Varo
attended Catholic convent school as a child and the magic cubicle
in this painting could be a convent classroom with six young women
stitching under supervision. The women are making sensuous folds
of muslin which stream out slits of the cubicle walls. The author
Thomas Pynchon wrote a novel, the Crying Lot 49, and write about
this painting by Varo. He writes, 'a broth boiling in the same
alchemical vessel from which the girls draw their embroidery thread.
Each girl works alone, embroidering images onto a continuous fabric
that spills out from table-height battlements around the facets
of the tower. Together they create a landscape with houses, ponds,
streams, boats, animals, and humans, all nestled within the folds
of the fabric.' |
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