Laurie Steffler
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Exhibition:
2016, Felt Feutre Exhibition and Fashion Show
Artist Statement:
I designed this Humpback Whale vest/hoody and Ocean dress to comment on the state of our ocean and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch where gyrating plastic debris pollutes the whales home and entangles them.  It was juried into the  Felt Feutre 2016 fashion show.   The felt humpback whale bowl and poem written on the mirror was exhibited and sold at Felt :: Feutre 2016 and is in the catalogue.
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          Migration
Once upon a time
migration moved through
a garden of Eden
beautiful, clean, harmony
now
a war torn polluted
toxic in many places
boundaries prohibit flow
caught in a net
fenced
refugee camps
waste ponds
is it safe?
what have I left
ran away to find
barriers 
netting
fenced nomads
so hungry
abundance, where is it?
schools of fish
used to be plentiful
what is the earth becoming
migration
will it become the past?
let us look into this mirror
how can we bring our Eden back
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