The two wool bundles from In the Middle of the World return to private collection

Her Arms Wrapped Round and My Heart,
 bundles of broken branches wrapped with dyed wool hanging in front of
Underfoot the Earth Divine, Judy's dyed linen and wool quilt.   
As they were installed in Artsplace, Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia, September 2024

These two wool bundles entered private collection in 2021 after the collector visited In the Middle of the World when the exhibition was installed at The Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario.  In The Middle of the World is a two part exhibition of stitched art by Judy Martin and Penny Berens.  (curator Miranda Bouchard). The bundles are an important part of the show.   . 

My Heart with The Forever at the World of Threads, Oakville Ontario, October 2023

The exhibition went on tour in Canada during 2023 and 2024 and the collector kindly loaned the pieces back to the artist for this period of time..  

Her Arms Wrapped Round with Eternity at the World of Threads Festival, Oakville Ontario in 2023

The two bundles installed in the Douglas Family Art Centre, Kenora , May 2023
background is Penny Berens' Waiting Between Night and Day, hand stitched linen

Now the tour is over and the bundles are being returned to the collector who lives in Quebec.

Judy is full of gratitude.  

The titles of the two bundles come from this poem by WB Yeats.

When my arms wrap you round I press

My heart upon the loveliness

That is long faded from the world

W B Yeats