Ellipse 7: The Equation

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Artist: Therese Zemlin

Title: Ellipse 7: The Equation

Attribution: Ellipse 7: The Equation, 2025, Therese Zemlin

Year: 2025

Materials: Inkjet prints of digitally altered text and photographs on Japanese and western papers, hand-cut into strips, hand weaving.

Dimensions: 13 x 22"

Image Statement: Weaving draft from Figurierte Muster Pl. XXVIII Nr. 7 (b), Die färbige Gewebemusterung, Franz Donat, Germany, 1907, Handweaving.net #63698. Short excerpts of text from E.O. Wilson (quote from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer), Lucretius (Translations from Lucretius Author: Robert Calverly Trevelyan [EBook #64024]) , Italo Calvino (Cosmicomics), Rachel Carson (Silent Spring), Annie Dillard (Teaching a Stone to Talk), and Elizabeth Kolbert (the New Panagea?) Photos by the artist: Walden Pond, Leominster MA, Indian Lake, Indian Creek and sky, Brimson MN,