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CENTRAL BOOKING
Robin Schwalb
New York, New York
2011
Stenciled and commercially available cottons and cotton blends. Machine pieced, hand quilted.
36 x 36 inches

Central Booking updates the traditional quilt design of a diamond in a square. Central booking is, of course, where the newly arrested are brought and held before arraignment. The central QR code and the stenciled text in the corners together spell out the first sentence of The Trial, Franz Kafka's nightmarish tale of bureaucratic and legal injustice, which has been translated as: “Someone must have slandered Josef K, for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.”

ornament

$4500

Note: This quilt is committed to be part of the exhibition "Semper Tedium: The Slow Art of Quiltmaking" at the Texas Quilt Museum January–March 2014. Please contact us for information about availability.

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