Framed matted tie-dyed textile by Ifé Franklin. Early work. Untitled. The textile appears to be a deep,indigo blue-dyed piece of thick cotton fabric with an assortment of white images, created by the tie-dye technique, crowding most of the fabric. The image appears, perhaps, as if someone is looking at a body of water with different objects and beings floating on its surface. At the top along the border are six squares tilted on a corner. They are blurred so they appear like flaming circles. There are five of them in a row near the right corner, and one that floats far away, cut off in the left corner. There are a few tiny seed pod-like shapes floating on the left side, patterned delicately in small lines and squiggles of whiteness. There’s one big almost crescent-shaped seed pod-like image ribbed in rows of white squiggles. Floating on the right are a series of broken twig branch pieces ribbed in small white squiggles. In the center, there’s a square within a square composed of small white dots. Below it, to the left, is a spider web-like shape made up of white squares within squares tilted on their point.

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