Two months and nearly impossible for me to come up with even a bad idea. So Thursday of this week I sat down with a piece of dyed fabric (the "wipe up all the spills" cloth from a workshop) and a pencil and started writing on the surface. When I ran out of things to write, I copied the dictionary definitions of Illuminate onto my fabric. Then I started embellishing with my Sharpie pen. My favorite part of the dictionary definition (this is a very old book sale dictionary) was a quote from Hawthorne about the "fantastically embroidered letter that illumed the bosum" of Hester in the Scarlet Letter. I may have to try my hand at that.
Instead, you have a collage of all the artistic ways that I "illume" my bosum (and life) with art. Dye painting, acrylic painting, hand applique, paper collage, journaling, raw edge applique. I quite like what I have made this time, which is a surprise.
4 comments:
Wonderful!!!!!
Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather (no easy feat)when I clicked on and saw this piece. It is incredible!
I love it! The handwriting and drawing on that background fabric is so beautifully done--love how the intensity of it ebbs and flows through the piece, then the collages pieces over it add such nice color and crispness. It really is quite illuminating! I so admire lovely collage like this and when I see it I hate that I am so literal!
Fantastic. I just love every single detail and your thoughtful description of the process.
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