Lately I have been working with earth pigments, soy milk on cotton and linen in various weights. Once the fabric was cured and ready to work with I then manipulated, stitched and treated the fabric with a combination of damar resin and beeswax. The following pictures are the results of these explorations.....
Fabric painted with earth pigments
Fabric stitched and shaped
Working with damar resin and beeswax
Closeup of stitched and waxed fabric
These 12 are currently in the ACN "ReVision" show in Bloomingdale IL at the Bloomingdale Park District Museum
A few of the larger 24" leaves/canoes
A close up
What started out as a small project exploded to 123 (at last count). The question now is what to do with all these lovelies. Each leaf/canoe is completely unique and was an absolute joy to create.
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I got to see and touch these canoes at the Bloomingdale show. They have a very specific feeling to them and invoke the feeling of memory and past times but in such a simple way. I loved them.
They are beautiful and evocative objects.
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