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65 Joanne Young<br />

Landfill, 2008<br />

Joanne Young (Kitchener, ON)<br />

Cottons, linen-cotton blend, rusted cloth, dustcover material, organza,<br />

chiffon, tulle, glitzy polyesters, meshes, nets, cheesecloth, wool, batting,<br />

jute scrim, screening, punchinello, tyvek, wire, pompoms, knitting tapes,<br />

acrylics, knitted copper wire, various embroidery threads; stamped with<br />

linocut, cords machine stitched, hand quilted. 15" x 29"<br />

Our society spends and disposes, spends and disposes.<br />

<strong>The</strong> disposing has become a problem. Our<br />

solution is to bury it in landfill sites. Toronto even<br />

buries their garbage in foreign soil. What is our<br />

legacy to future generations? And to the Earth? Ask<br />

the crows.

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