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Hi to all and welcome to the Women in Art Blog. To get things rolling, I'm going to post an image and commentary.

This is an image by a contemporary Palestinian-British artist named Mona Hatoum, called Projection (2008). It is a map of the world in which the oceans, or "space" are embossed or raised, and the continents are stamped or embedded. Made of cotton, a humble material suggestive of cloth, clothing and women's sewing, the title refers to the Peter's Projection cartography, with Africa at the center or the "heart" of the composition. Hatoum has made maps in a variety of materials that point to current events, political realities and conflicts, and always the unsettled experience of life in exile, in the sweeping Palestinian diaspora. As a Palestinian she is "homeless", "stateless", as an artist she is a citizen of the world.