Susan Stockwell. Pattern of the World. 2000
The world is reimagined as tea and coffee stains on fragile dressmaking patterns. Speaking to Britain's legacy of colony and empire-making, it manifests the idea of commodity trading taking the role of shaping the economic and political circumstances of the world -- from tea, coffee, textiles to manual labour. It also alludes to the debate between Mercator's and Peters' projection of the world map, as a portion of southern Africa has the instructions "Shorten or lengthen here."
(V&A Exhibit)
(V&A Exhibit)
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