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Aparna Agrawal works in paper, thread, wax, and burlap-domestic
media for an artist whose focus is the warmth, mystery, and
fragility of home- be that family or society. At the Cambridge
Arts Council's Gallery 57, her paper constructions coated
in wax are translucent and seem, like balloons, filled with
breath, pregnant with air. Empty beds, constructed from jute
twine, burlap, and wire, appear in many pieces; empty shirts,
waving like ghosts, are also a recurring image. Whether this
emptiness is fecund or mournful (or both) is hard to say,
but it's always contained in a thoughtful, sometimes beautiful,
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