order belies chaos
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cotton, silk, buttons, machine pieced, hand quilted with hand embroidered text, 90 x 75 inches, 1991
A sun and a moon are represented in the upper part of a traditional log cabin quilt in a zig zag format. When the sun and the moon are seen in the sky at the same time, it is called a cosmic marriage. This is a quilt about marriage. The text on the sun is by surrealist poet Andre Breton and states: "What I have loved, whether or not I have kept it or not, I shall always love" The text on the moon is by Elizabeth 1 of England and states: "I am and not, I freeze and and yet am burned, since from myself another self I've turned"
A black and white image of Order Belies Chaos was the invitation image for Martin's solo exhibition, I Will Remember You Until I Die at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery in 1991.
Private collection. Barbara Sprague, Southampton, Ontario.
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