Marrow becomes breath
2022
- Medium
- woven cotton and acrylic yarn, fabric (trim)
- Measurements
- (246.3 × 271.7 cm)
- Place/s of Execution
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Accession Number
- 2023.358
- Department
- International Fashion and Textiles
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by the Tapestry Foundation of Australia, 2023
© Diedrick Brackens. Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles. - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Diedrick Brackens’s works, which draw on European and West African textile traditions and are made from hand-dyed cotton, use weaving as a way of storytelling. marrow becomes breath is typical of Brackens figurative work, which uses his own body as a reference. Evoking themes of regeneration and transformation in the title, the silhouetted subject kneels holding a chain-like string beside two skulls (one human, one animal) that symbolise the marrow of winter or death.