Lesley Turner

Lesley Turner

Victoria, BC

Lesley Turner has a full time art practice and exhibits across Canada, and the USA. She stitches textiles by hand and machine.

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Laundry Mantra: Mind the Haberdashery by Lesley Turner Image: Lesley Turner, 'Laundry Mantra: Mind the Haberdashery', 2021, 26" x 26". Vintage cotton domestic linens, zippers, buttons, metal hooks, metal clothes pegs, polyester thread. This mantra inspires mindfulness in preserving delicate life connections, symbolized by a launderer's attention to haberdashery details.
Lesley Turner, 'Laundry Mantra: Mind the Haberdashery', 2021, 26" x 26". Vintage cotton domestic linens, zippers, buttons, metal hooks, metal clothes pegs, polyester thread. This mantra inspires mindfulness in preserving delicate life connections, symbolized by a launderer's attention to haberdashery details.
  • Lesley Turner
  • Laundry Mantra: Mind the Haberdashery
  • Vintage domestic linens embellished with buttons, wooden clothes pegs, zippers, hooks,
  • 26 x 26 x 1 in
  • C$150
  • Available
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By repeating this mantra, a launderer, akin to a haberdasher, embraces the art of care. It emphasizes safeguarding garment attachments—buttons, zippers, snaps, Velcro, and ties—through life's tumultuous cycles. This mantra inspires mindfulness in preserving delicate life connections, symbolized by a launderer's attention to haberdashery details.

  • Subject Matter: Launder
  • Collections: Launder

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