Like the Petit Point, a bookwork by Lise Melhorn-Boe, based on the poem of the same name by Bronwen Wallace

Abstract

Like the Petit Point, a bookwork by Lise Melhorn-Boe, based on the poem of the same name by Bronwen Wallace. The book is open to a two-page spread; the page on the left feature a montage of a line from the poem with images of the title pages of Woman Reading in Bath by Anne Szumigalski and The Woman I Am by Dorothy Livesay; the page on the right features a petit point canvas embroidery of flowers. Photograph by Brendan Edwards and Ella Heiss.