Lesley Turner, 'Section, Township, Range', 2013, 24" x 12", wool, cotton. silk, linen, alpaca, hemp. Europeans divided up the prairies with an imposed grid deciding ownership limits. Even when ownership and land use changes over time the original grid is still visible as a cultural imprint on the landscape.
Additional Artworks
From Lesley Turner
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Laundry Mantra: Mind the Haberdashery
Vintage domestic linens embellished with buttons, wooden clothes pegs, zippers, hooks,
26 x 26 x 1 in
C$150
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Laundry Mantra: Close All Zippers
Vintage hand embroidered domestic linens embellished with metal snaps, plastic buttons and zippers
36 x 36 x 0.5 in
C$225
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The Businessman and the Launderer
Manipulated cotton men's business shirts hand-stitiched
18 x 22 x 1 in
C$300
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Sorted
Men's cotton shirts in a shadow box
10 x 21 x 2 in
C$150
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Scorch: Reverie
Vintage embroidered hand towel, cotton bedsheet, polyester thread
30 x 20 x 0.5 in
C$250
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Scorch: Mandala
Vintage embroidered cloth, cotton bedsheet, polyester thread
28 x 28 x 0.5 in
C$250
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L'heritage des Ursulines
Vintage buttons machine sewn on fabric.
21 x 26 x 1.5 in
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Forest Reliquary
Vintage embroidered cotton tablecloth, polyester & cotton thread, earth pigments, leaf skeletons, deer bones, maple tree samaras, fern spores
28 x 16 x 2 in