After a bit of an absence from the blog, here is some new work. I'm getting close to my goal of 30 pieces to take to the show. The above pieces are titled, Pentimento I & II. I've almost disguised the stitchery in these pieces, at least in the pictures of them. The stitchery is on a segment of canvas that Pat painted and sketched and then passed to me. There is an earlier post with more of this type of integration. There is much layering of paint and embedded images that are hard to see in the photos, thus the title, Pentimento. These two pointed me in a new direction and I began to treat the painted part of the image quite differently, doing an extreme amount of editing. I really like this idea and wonder how far I can go without making the entire image completely disappear. Much more to explore here.
In this piece I went back to my fabric collection and for some reason was drawn to an embroidered fabric, a remnant from when I had my dining room chairs re-covered. I combined it with a screen printed fabric from a great little store in Madrid, NM. I tried to locate the store again and found it had closed. The person I spoke with did not know where the former owners had gone. I would love to get more of this fabric, randomly printed with lizards, birds, horses, frogs, etc. In this piece, I've forced the relationship between the two divergent fabrics, creating one piece, then further forced the relationship between the fabric and the painting. It reminded me of the blending of two (or more) very different objects into one, thus the title "Fusion." This piece, to me, fuses.
