Body of Water – albedo too

a sum of the parts perhaps

Posted on February 23, 2016February 23, 2016 by arlee

I never finished this piece:

From 2010, it never seemed to say anything beyond TEXTURE! COLOUR! 🙂 I see no story in it, so never went further.

This however……

I have used those “cell wings” on other work as well. (Detail above is from “Padded Cell: Boro’d Time” 2011) They showed up on my SDA “Materialities” exhibit piece “How the Light Bends” 2015 as well:

What if i adapted these again and used them on that red piece? I’m thinking of strong(er) colours —– and may take the scissors to the piece before or after adding them. I want this heretofore untitled piece to have something to say.

I also have been working on Body of Water–and progressing not all….i’m not happy with it yet, even as a companion piece. Have been diddling around in the stoodio with dumb ideas and the gelling is taking its time…..BUT the actual piece for the Leighton exhibit is almost solidifed in my head–which means i best get to it SOON. Like NOW!

Body of Water

moving a river

Posted on January 26, 2016January 26, 2016 by arlee

Only a couple of floating sections left to do along the river strip.

The next challenge is to do the main component, the figure. Several of the smaller “cut outs” will have to be removed as they are just too small to correctly turn and stitch. Less is more, right? 🙂 I’m also thinking some colour might work under this section as well.

The blue lines above at her sides will stay “open” as those delineate her arms, but the insides are asking for some contrast or show.

Browns might work, but i want a bit more colour–my primitive photo edit program shows that brown as blah, too solid, not very exciting–guess i’ll have to audition something under–don’t want in your face guts, but something from my hoard of Deb Lacativa’s luscious dyeways may fit the bill.

Body of Water

the river flows

Posted on January 24, 2016January 24, 2016 by arlee

Almost done this section, a few more roots, a few more floating sections, and voila. The actual orientation will be vertical, with the right of this as the top.

So glad FrankenStitch is coming back.

There’s so much dimension and crunch in this that i am going to have to rethink how to attach it to the main fabric. It would be a shame to lose all the height and fold.

Body of Water, Collision: the work begins

same same, but not

Posted on January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 by arlee

Dense, thick, very heavy, tactile–but not done yet. The way the fabric is distorting and moving makes me very happy. I have plans for this particular piece, but now i have other plans for the technique too. A good day for test and expansion.

This is the strip down the side of the original layout:

I might be doing another for the right side, though haven’t decided yet. One? Two? I like an accidental symmetry in my work, so two bars may be too “squared off”.

“Body of Water” will be a companion piece for my own enjoyment in the making to the Leighton work–it doesn’t successfully relate to the original inspiration except in my head. I like that this exhibit is having me try different ideas, but somehow i must bring it back to at least a modicum of “inspired by”.

Though i’m not sure it looks it, i’m feeling a bit free-er in interpretation right now–still not quite where i want to go, but baby steps, baby steps. Part of the problem is that i want to be a bit more abstract, but keep getting pulled back to the pictorial. While there is nothing “wrong” with this–because truthfully i have no interest in slapping some torn squares on and make a concept heavy statement to explain it—-i still feel there is something more to be said in my practice.