SoHo Through April 17 Scraps of cloth meet and make surreally screwball tableaus in China Marks's new collages, which she calls "sewn drawings".
Barefoot, wearing similar long, white dresses of woven Malian cloth, they meet as equals in the afterlife, which is captured in a sparse set of traditional African mourning altars to which the spirits of the dead can return.
Nearby, Richard Artschwager's plywood cube laminated to look like a cloth-draped table meets a yarn-festooned chair by Lucas Samaras and an ingenious walnut-and-brass "Cradle Cabinet" by Sam Maloof.
Pull the bottom of the sling cloth up to meet the top of the triangle you are holding to the uninjured shoulder.
There's more than meets the eye to the man behind the cloth.
Parachute cloth, for example, must meet exacting specifications, air porosity being a vital factor.
But if there is a tax constraint on policy you would expect that high-spending governments would eventually have to cut their coat to meet their cloth.
Two lovers are trying to kiss through their separate grey hoods, lips never meeting, the cloth dry and suffocating on the tongue.
At the Hotel Caledonian bar in Edinburgh he had met a cloth exporter, John McLeod, who showed him a lovely Hebrides tweed.
"Lo siento, Susana, mija!" And the hiss of steam as the iron met the cloth, and further Spanish as Bonita apologized and soothed, his daughter's name a shushing on her lips, Soos, Soos, Soos.
