Robert Glenn Ketchum
The Beginning of Time, 1994
Ketchum's most dramatic efforts to test the limits of photographic depiction come from Ketchum's 20-year
collaboration with the master embroiderers at China's premier Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute.
Random stitch embroidery silk thread and watercolor on silk gauze. Standing Screen.
Based on the original silver dye-beach (Cibachrome) print, CVNRA, #412, 1987.
Three panels, framed, 60 x 64 in. (152.4 x 152.6 cm.)
© Robert Glenn Ketchum







