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Rachel Carson's War Belt. Detail.

19" x 40". Mercerized cotton thread dyed with pomegranate, chestnut, qeubracho, marigold and myrobalan saddened in an iron afterbath.

This war belt pays tribute to Rachel Carson (May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964) who was an American marine biologist, writer and conservationist. Her sea trilogy (1941 - 1955) was credited with advancing marine conservation and her book Silent Spring (1962) inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the US Envrironmental Agency.

This piece contains the beginning and end sections of the poem Darkness by Byron (1816) in morse code:

Rachel Carson's War Belt. Detail.

19" x 40". Mercerized cotton thread dyed with pomegranate, chestnut, qeubracho, marigold and myrobalan saddened in an iron afterbath.

This war belt pays tribute to Rachel Carson (May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964) who was an American marine biologist, writer and conservationist. Her sea trilogy (1941 - 1955) was credited with advancing marine conservation and her book Silent Spring (1962) inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the US Envrironmental Agency.

This piece contains the beginning and end sections of the poem Darkness by Byron (1816) in morse code: