Souvenirs
Title from dealer's description
"This book talks about overcoming struggles. The images of scars represent hardships of all kinds: from pain to loss, from emptiness to acceptance, from comfort to realizations of new incapacities in life. At the same time, all these images are surrounded by delicate laces and sensual curves that stitched together make us be reminded that life is a beautiful gift despite all the struggles we are faced to defeat"--Sandra C. Fernández, dealer's description
"5.25" x 7" x 5.5" box containing a crocheted element and an accordion book. Lid is attached via leather straps. Spanish text covers all the surfaces of the box. A crocheted element is suspended in the interior via red threads affixed to the walls. A nine panel accordion book is laid atop the crocheted piece. On the lid top, anchored with red thread, is a crocheted piece with red willow twigs intertwined. Materials: Wood, Vandykes, text from 16th-century Spanish writings on the Americas, various handmade and Japanese papers, inkjet photographs, antique crocheted application, waxed linen thread, red willow twigs, leather, and silk threads. Signed by the artist"--Dealer's description
"This book talks about overcoming struggles. The images of scars represent hardships of all kinds: from pain to loss, from emptiness to acceptance, from comfort to realizations of new incapacities in life. At the same time, all these images are surrounded by delicate laces and sensual curves that stitched together make us be reminded that life is a beautiful gift despite all the struggles we are faced to defeat"--Sandra C. Fernández, dealer's description
"5.25" x 7" x 5.5" box containing a crocheted element and an accordion book. Lid is attached via leather straps. Spanish text covers all the surfaces of the box. A crocheted element is suspended in the interior via red threads affixed to the walls. A nine panel accordion book is laid atop the crocheted piece. On the lid top, anchored with red thread, is a crocheted piece with red willow twigs intertwined. Materials: Wood, Vandykes, text from 16th-century Spanish writings on the Americas, various handmade and Japanese papers, inkjet photographs, antique crocheted application, waxed linen thread, red willow twigs, leather, and silk threads. Signed by the artist"--Dealer's description
Artwork Details
- Title: Souvenirs
- Artist: Sandra C. Fernández (American, born 1964)
- Date: 2008
- Geography: Parlin, New Jersey
- Dimensions: 9 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; Height (closed): 4 3/4 × 3 15/16 in. (12 cm), Height (open): 4 3/4 × 35 7/16 in. (12 cm)
- Object Number: N7433.4.F4663 S68 2008
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