Tracey Clement captures the enormity of Australia’s bushfires in her embroidery 'Impossible Numbers' one stitch at a time spanning 15,000 squares, 500 hours, and 19 months.

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15,000 squares, 500 hours, 19 months: how I used embroidery to make sense of Australia’s catastrophic fires

After spending more than 500 hours embroidering in an attempt to come to terms with the bushfires of 2019-2020, I discovered that while no news may be good news, ‘slow news’ is even better.

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