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What am I here to create?

Allende's narrative work and Albers's textile practice show creation through different materials and disciplines. Their lives do not assign a purpose to yours. What would you like to make, what would it involve learning, and who or what might it be for?

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Isabel Allende

Allende's narrative work and Albers's textile practice show creation through different materials and disciplines.

The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982)

Allende, Isabel. The House of the Spirits. Translated by Magda Bogin, Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

Anni Albers

Allende's narrative work and Albers's textile practice show creation through different materials and disciplines.

On Weaving (1965)

Albers, Anni. On Weaving. Wesleyan University Press, 1965.

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