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2016 January 15
by Heather MacKenzie

Year: 2015
Medium: Wool, polyester, paper
Size: 2.4m x 10m (bolt of cloth), 40cm x 1m (book)

Hanging in the foreground is a textile whose woven structures transcoded a portion of Emilie du Chatelet’s manuscript “A Dissertation on Fire”. On the wall behind is the dissected manuscript of Voltaire on the same topic.