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Once
Once
35.5" h x 32" w
Hand-dyed cotton, acrylic paint, Tyvek from a lab jacket, embroidery thread.
Photo by Deidre Adams



Once - Detail
How can we sustain an environment in which Tyvek lab jackets are worn once in a sterile environment and then discarded? Squares cut from just such a jacket were painted in delicate earth colors, hand-quilted to hand-dyed cotton and then buried beneath layers upon layers of screenprinted paint.

Consider all that time spent in hand-stitching which will never be seen except from the back. It’s a small sacrifice made to call attention how the glittery surface of our consumer society hides an ugly truth: Our failure to embrace a time-consuming commitment to reduce, reuse, recycle.