While many artists treat the broad flat surface of wool and duffel as a space to move beyond linear narrative and defined scenes, Nancy Kangeryuaq Sevoga takes a different approach. In this work, her stitching forms a distinct vignette, offering a postcard-like glimpse of a specific time and place. Here in Untitled Work on Cloth (Tide and Tundra), we are treated to the expanse from the water that is her home, Qamani’tuaq, with its curved and craggy shoreline butting up against the rows of small houses against the shoreline. The townsfolk go about their day, both in town and along the coast, while the further bodies of water and low, rolling hills to the north of the town frame in the houses. As the water laps at the shore, you can almost feel the peace that radiates from this place, both in rock and in wool.

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