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Artist Name
Carissa Carman
Art Image
This piece, entitled “Don’t Be Afraid of Me”, is a yellow and beige quilted rectangle made of fabric scraps. The right side of the piece has a translucent sheet with a poem printed onto it.

The translucent sheet reads as follows: 

"Don’t be afraid of me 

(black and yellow fight back) 

 

Weld 

summer harvest 

on wool twill that shifts like a dancing child 

 

Cooked fiber 

paper grips on 

Stretching onto  

only when wet. 

 

You can colors by plant name 

But fear the feeling in your body. 

Don’t be afraid of me 

They say. 

 

Might you then be scared 

of showing the back or 

do you rest in knowing that it too 

can hold you?"

 

8 hour flax, 4 hour abaca, IU color field wield (reseda) dyed wool twill with ammonia, madder dyed linen, sitelab printed silk organza, thread, hobby lobby bias tape. 

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