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Repeating Patterns

Liz Jaff does something to her completed artworks that likely no other artist anywhere does. Once she has meticulously cut her repeating patterns of white paper, folded them into shapes, sometimes sewing the pieces together with thread, and displayed them, her next act of creation is even more startling.

“After I take the work down from a

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