Her Arms Wrapped Round, My Heart

My Heart, 22 x 10.5 x 14 inches, natural dyes on wool cloth over an armature made from broken willow branches and clover stalks, hand stitched, 2021

Her Arms Wrapped Round and My Heart, installation view, In The Middle Of The World, Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario autumn 2021

Her Arms Wrapped Round, 30.5 x 9.5 x 8 inches, natural dyes on wool cloth wrapped around an armature made from broken willow branches and clover stalks, 2021

When my arms wrap you round I press

my heart upon the loveliness

that has long faded from the world.  W.B. Yeats  

They are each about the size and weight of a young child.  

Premier exhibition :  In The Middle of The World, Judy Martin and Penny Berens, curated by Miranda Bouchard, The Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, October 2 - December 18, 2021. 

The exhibition toured to Kenora, Ontario and showed at The Muse / Lake of the Woods Museum and Douglas Family Art Centre, April 1 - July 4, 2023.

It then went on to Artsplace in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia in September - October 2024.

The two bundles were also part of Judy's Northern Ontario / Time installation at World of Threads festival in Oakville Ontario, October 2023 - January 2024.  

Both bundles are in private collection in Chelsea, Quebec.