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Jen Bervin
The Dickinson Composites Series (The Composite Marks of Fascicle 38), 2008
Cotton batting, muslin, and hand-dyed silk thread
72 x 96 inches
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 76 "Sloth", 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
48 x 30 inches
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Sloth
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 169 "Grasped by God -", 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, thread
2 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches
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Grasped by
God -
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 207 "In vain to punish Honey", 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
6 x 25 1/2 inches
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
In vain
to punish
Honey /
it only
sweeter
grows /
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 287 "Most Arrows", 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
4 1/2 x 30 inches
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Most Arrows
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 380 and "Silks", 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread; hand-dyed cotton batting, muslin, mull, silkscreen
9 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches each; 19 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches overall
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
380:
The Blood is more
showy/gaudy than the
Breath
But cannot
dance as well –
380a:
e of Silks.
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 401 "The Infinite a sudden guest", 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
8 x 26 1/4 inches (top); 6 x 28 1/2 inches (bottom); 16 x 28 inches overall
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401:
The Infinite a
sudden Guest
Has been assumed
to be –
401a:
But how can that
stupendousness come
which never went away?
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 752 and 752a "Emerging from an Abyss", 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
14 1/4 x 24 inches (top); 14 1/4 x 23 1/2 inches (bottom); 29 1/2 x 24 inches overall
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Emerging from
an Abyss and
entering it again –
that is Life, is
it not?
Could
[text truncated by tear]
I do
her sister
spoken f[ ]
with he[ ]
when they
surprise
after her
a the
of her A[ ]
I should
value [ ]
insatiable[?]
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 769 "'Tumultuous privacy of Storm'", 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
43 1/2 x 27 3/4 inches
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"Tumultuous
privacy
of Storm"
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 822 and 822(a) "Thronged only with music", 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
7 x 37 1/2 inches (top); 7 x 38 1/4 inches (bottom); 16 x 38 1/4 inches overall
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It is very still in the
world now – Thronged
only with music like the
Decks of
Birds –
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 838 and 838a "I hope you have the power of hope -", 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
4 x 37 1/4 inches (left); 3 1/2 x 36 inches (right); 4 x 85 inches overall
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
I hope you have
the power of
hope –
close – Anguish has but so many
throes then unconsciousness just claims it
seals it
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 853 "Flowers are so enticing", 2021
Cotton batting, blue rule, muslin, mull, silver thread
22 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
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Flowers are
so enticing
I fear that
they are
sins – like
gambling
or Apos-
tasy –
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 861 "A climate of escape", 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, light rule, silkscreen (mourning stationery), muslin, mull, silver thread
9 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches
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to [ ]
might [ ]
a climate of
escape is Fondness
natural to –
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 869 "Science is very near us -" , 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
6 1/2 x 32 1/4 inches
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Science is very near us –
I found a megatherium
on my strawberry –
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 876 and 876a "If Heaven is negative", 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, pink rule, muslin, mull, silver thread
21 x 45 1/2 inches each; 21 x 46 inches overall
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to know whether
we are in
Heaven or on
on Earth is
one of the
most impossible
of the minds
decisions, and but
I think it
the balance
always leans in
favor of the
negative – if
Heaven is negative
most - Excess?Any fortune bestepped uponus by a de[illegible] GodFor he knewwhat was inmen – I remember cast waywith distinctness and sorrowToday hasgratitudes of
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 877: Train up a Heart, 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, blue rule, muslin, mull, silver thread
28 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (triangle)
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Train
up a
Heart in
the way
it should
go and as
quick as it
can twill
depart from
it
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Jen Bervin
Still from Faire et défaire c’est travailler / Doing and undoing it’s working, 2021
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