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Lesley Dill | |||
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1950 in Bronxville, NY Lives and works in New York, NY |
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| Poem Spill, 1995 | ||||
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paint, plaster, wire, wood, and paper 105 x 12 x 8 inches Purchased with funds from the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art 1996.17 |
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Lesley Dill's Poem Spill, 1995, demonstrates her love of 19th-century writer Emily Dickinson. For Dill, words are a shield for our vulnerable human body. Dill has "written" one of Dickinson's poems in wires that spill from the fragmented hanging figure. |
