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Bidmat
Prayer Mat

Item date(s): 2010

Stephan Erasmus


Pages: unpaged
Size: 272mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: #1/5


Place publication: Johannesburg, RSA
Publisher: Artists Book
Cat. 27
Exhibition 2014

Additional notes:
Fabriano paper, digital printing and cotton thread. Scroll format in a clam-shell box with divisions holding the scroll.

Source text: Every Bible verse in the Old Testament containing the word "land" has been collected and printed. The text has been cut into strips and woven into a scroll with cotton thread. Every woven section contains five lines of text.



Exhibition notes:
'Hartland'.

Absa Gallery, Johannesburg

6th – 29th October 2010

Item 27 on TEXTures: an exhibition of texts, textures and structure in artists’ books.

Archives & Special Collections, University of Johannesburg

5 March to 18 April 2014

Ref: GB/12753















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