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Chicago
Portage, (65 L x 68 W), 2007
Embroidery and heat
transfers on satin, velvet and brocade, stitched.
The story of Marquette and Joliet's historic 1673 exploration of Wisconsin and
Illinois, is embroidered and surrounds early Lake Michigan maps. The French
explorers used a faster way for the return part of their journey to the northern
part of Lake Michigan. They carried the canoes across a portage from the
Des Plaines River to the Chicago River and returned via Lake Michigan, instead
of paddling up the Mississippi to the Wisconsin River, and portaging to the
Fox. The outer embroidery is from Joliet's journal.
Il n'y auroit qu'une seignee a faire, coupant demye lieue de prairie seulement,
pour entrer du fond du lac des Ilinois dans la riviere de St. Louis
(It would only be necessary to make a canal, by cutting through but half a league
of prairie, to pass from the foot of the lake of the Illinois to the river Saint
Louis.)