Looke! 2009-10. Hand embroidery with beads on linen. 32 3/4 x 27 1/4 in. (83.2 x 69.2 cm)

 

Bacchus and Ariadne

Le Sueur

Reichek

— Looke: how the crowne which Ariadne wore, Being now placed in the firmament, Through the bright heavens doth her beams display, And is unto the starres an ornament, Which round about her move in order excellent.

 

— Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, c. 1580-99