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| newest patch in grid-format work-in-progress |
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| newest patch, rotated; undecided about my preference for orientation |
Monday, April 9, 2018
A Little Bit of a Hard Place
Once I'd set up what felt like a basic working structural composition for my Nova Scotia rocks, my sense of operating from a space between a rock and a little bit of a hard place dissipated and I just leapt from rock to rock intuitively to complete this piece.
10 comments:
WOW WOW WOW! This is really gorgeous, and once more I am dreaming of it BIG! This is a natural fit for you!
Jen, very appreciative of your WOW WOW WOW in combo with your this-is-a-natural-fit-for-you. I am and have long been pulled to rock in the natural world and I have also been pulled more than once to its lines and contours in my painting life. I am grateful for your encouragement to go BIG. Feel free to nudge me again if you don't see evidence of my bringing action to intention.
I really like the idea of all those small tiles. You already mentioned the resemblance with sewing blankets of little tiles. I always LOVE to see those handmade blankets, and I love your 'blanket' of little canvases too. It has the same charm. The sum of the parts is more than the different parts by themselves.
I have to say again that this blanket of little tiles isn't the 'endpoint' I had in mind but the tiles have played out so differently from what I thought I would be painting, and I love the quilt that has resulted instead. Now that many tiles have been created, I am paying (a little) more attention to overall composition and I am really looking forward to hanging the quilt on an empty wall in my home once I complete it.
This is a fantastic combination of color and infinite rock veins! Looks like a million layers!
Thank you, Carol! So happy to hear that this looks like infinite veins and a million layers to you—yes, yes, yes!
I want to wear this somehow! How completely gorgeous!
Carolyn, thanks for bringing textiles back to mind! This'd make such a fun scarf or dress. Or maybe even quilt patches, with my current rectangle squared off and patches randomly rotated and butted against each other. Thank you for your enthusiastic feedback!
This is so wonderful. Why is it, why is there a familiar feeling to this. Why do I like it so much? Why do I want to see it on a LARGE... throw, or rug, or wall? I keep going back to look again.
:) xoxoxox
Sheila, thanks for your lovely questions-as-comments. I'm so delighted to have captured visual language that is calling you back again and again : )
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