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BUZZING/FLYING
Robin Schwalb
New York, New York
2003
Silk-screened cotton fabrics, fabric paint, buckram, glass beads, thread.
Hand appliquéd, hand quilted.
12 x 12 inches

Robin Schwalb comments: "[This] fragment from A. S. Byatt's novella The Conjugal Angel suggests the
palpable presence, pleasure, and burden of language."

"He heard the buzzing of little flying fragments of language that hung around his head all the time in a cloud, like the veils of living and dead smoke, like the motes of dust that hung in shafts of sunlight..."

ornament

$750

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