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5th December 2024
Charlie's web of literary and historical references combined with her astonishing making skills made her viva show a superb example of installation art. This piece is a wonderful synthesis of her thinking and creating. 'Walking, walking on alone': Lucy's Carpet is rag-rugged with a complete copy of Charlotte Brontë's Villette hand-printed on recycled milk-bottle fabric, and also contains fragments of Emily and Anne Brontë's works. It evokes the sisters' habit of walking round the Haworth Parsonage table each night as they worked on their novels, a habit Charlotte continued alone after their deaths while finishing Villette.
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