Ellipse 4: Thistledown

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Artist: Therese Zemlin

Title: Ellipse 4: Thistledown

Attribution: Ellipse 4: Thistledown, 2024, Therese Zemlin

Year: 2024

Materials: Inkjet prints on Japanese and western papers, hand-cut into strips, hand weaving

Dimensions: 12.5 x 21"

Image Statement: Weaving draft/pattern by Emmy Jacobs, 2004, Handweaving.net #63385. Text excerpts are from Louisa May Alcott (Thistledown 1854), Emily Dickenson (Poems 1830-1886), Neltje Blanchan (Nature’s Garden, 1900), Friedrich Nietzche (Beyond Good and Evil), and L.H.Bailey (The Holy Earth, 1916), (Gutenberg.org) Photographs of the thistle, meadow, and sky taken by the artist at Skibo Mountain, Hoyt Lakes MN, and in the studio.