Detail of "Who Are You, Really?
The latest Art Cloth Network call for entry is titled "Blurred Boundaries". My ideas were swirling but I finally settled on working with the human figure, which I rarely ever do. But the theme begged the question: how clearly can we see another person, or are we just left with a blurry, unfocused image of someone? The way we perceive each other and present ourselves in the world is for some reason interesting to me right now. Sometimes you just have to follow up, however weird it seems at first.
I decided to once again use my preferred method of printing the fabric using my gel printing plates. I hand-cut a lot of stencils, taking silhouettes mostly from sewing and fashion magazines, as I wanted to emphasize the posing that people do.
I then used the stencils to try out multi-layered prints, that were offset so the shapes overlap, and get unfocused.
I love the concept and how you have carried it out. In the first image, I see a shadow, like we all carry around a shadow of ourselves that no one really knows. Provocative.
ReplyDeleteBarbara, you totally got what I wanted to say! Makes me happy, thanks!
ReplyDeleteThank you for contributing such a well-thought-out piece to the discussion.
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