Line Dance, Tree Ring Patterns, var. 26 is 57" x 43". It is an art quilt. It is created from a photo of a tree stump I took while walking in one of the local conservation areas. I loved the look of the "feathers" in the wood caused by some unknown issue in the tree's past. These old tree stumps are evocative, for me, of time passing. I wonder at all that has happened in that forest - what has come and gone, what the tree has survived and been used for. Some of the story gets told in the stump by the markings. As part of my interest in Wabi-Sabi, the Japanese concept of finding beauty in the imperfect, the old, the decaying, the moment, I find this beautiful.
I manipulated the image in Photoshop Elements to heighten color and contrast, printed it out and then thread painted all the black line area to add dense texture and contrast to all the other patterning. I find the back of the piece quite intriguing as you see the map of that stitching. It tells you even more about the interior life of the tree.
See this piece and more in the Line Dance series on my website:
www.barbaraschneider-artist.
---Barbara Schneider
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| Line Dance, Tree Ring Patterns, var. 26, reverse |
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| Line Dance, Tree Ring Patterns, var. 26, detail |
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| Line Dance, Tree Ring Patterns, var. 26 |
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