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Terese Agnew was walking through a department store one day and noticed the signs of all of the designers posted amongst the garments for sale. Having recently met a couple of garment workers, she realized that their identity and was rarely thought of and deliberately hidden. She became inspired to create a work of art utilizing the tags from the garments themselves. Her work is based on a photograph taken by Charles Kernaghan of a labor worker in Bangladesh.
There was a massive campaign to aquire the labels, with thousands of people painstakingly cutting the labels from garments. She used the labels in numerous ways to create shading, background and a border. "I have always been fascinated with how the work of art becomes an artwork", she says. "Twenty years ago I started out as a public sculptor. My early work included large-scale installations that involved hundreds of people in the art making process. Their involvement demonstrated the potential for people's labor to become a form of public communication". In 1991 she started making art quilts in addition to sculpture.
You can learn more about Terese's work by clicking here.
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