Warren Buss
Beaverton, Oregon

Sewing Box
$300
To Purchase Contact 23 Sandy Gallery

About this Book

Bookboard, mulberry-paper-backed linen, embroidery floss, paper, scissor. 3.5"w x 5.5"h x  2.15"d inches. One of a kind.

Artist Statement

My maternal grandmother was a renown seamstress, who for a time made her own line of children’s clothes from her home in New Haven, Connecticut. From this initial inspiration arose other ideas: associations with mythology, what it means to “carry” a child, and the shifting, fragile, ineffaceable bond between mother and child. There, I’ve said too much…

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