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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