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1½ inches thick (3.75 cm)
Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
Artist Jo West
Collection TravelsAroundAmerica
Description The small Victorian town of Eureka Springs nestles amid the Ozark Mountains of North-West Arkansas. There is a vibrant artisan community here and the streets are bursting with art galleries and craft shops, offering everything from hand-woven baskets to hand-carved furniture. Every thing, in fact, that was once crafted with the aim of improving the day-to-day lives of ordinary people, and has now become desirable for its aesthetic and nostalgic appeal.All around the town, the rural landscape still dominates, but one doesn't have to look far to find the homesteads abandoned by their owners in favour of the urban artisanal lifestyle on offer in Eureka Springs. I found this wheelbarrow on one such site and, to me, it symbolises not only the move from country to town and from self-sufficiency to supermarket culture, but also the movement away from the craftsman's production of items necessary to life, to the creation of craft for art's sake. This wheelbarrow, once a useful tool in the production of food, has now also become an object of art.
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