Monique Crabb ‘22
Intermedia and Digital Art MFA, UMBC

The Fragility of Hope, 2021
Organic indigo-dyed secondhand jeans, dried marigolds, thread
28” x  72”

I’m Sorry, 2020
Plant-dye, fabric, wool batting, thread
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Crabb describes this work as "a soft and unstable monument to the unavoidable nature of loss and turmoil."

It’s placement within A New World? references the collective grief of the deaths of 2020-2021 – from Covid, from racism, from isolation – and also to pose an open question of whether or not its message is limited to this moment.