TWO RIVERS

Janice Kirner

The work was based on the artist's research on literary geography in João Guimarães Rosa's book "Grande Sertão: Veredas" (1956). The two-by-two format symbolically represents two important rivers in the narrative: the São Francisco and the Urucúia, which exhibit diverse and contrasting characteristics, both physical and poetic. The embroidery threads emerge from the book's core and overflow through the spines and the arid wilderness of the sertão depicted on the cover.