8.5″ x 11″
2019
Not for sale
This third in my series of tiny rainbow photoquilts, this one follows a Bargello pattern, which bumps strips of differing widths up or down to create wave forms. The colored strips are from pictures of car roofs and hoods and the mostly-white strips are remnants from the photo printing process. These are some of the tiniest pieces of photo paper I’ve ever worked with.
Click on the links to see Rainbow #1 and Rainbow #2.
11″ x 9″
2019
$150
This is a piece I’ve been thinking about for a while. It’s an improvised composition of pieces of film-era photographs. Remember those? You’d snap off 24 photos, sometimes over weeks or even months, put them in an envelope, send them away for a week or two, and then pick them up only to find out how bad the lighting and composition really were. These photos are a nice metaphor for memory. Most of these pieces are poorly-focused, over- or under-exposed and feature minimally identifying parts of people and places that I don’t remember anymore.
8″ x 10″
2019
Not for Sale / Private Collection
This is the second in a series of smaller rainbows I’m working on. The first was donated to the Ecole Kenwood Art Auction and was popular enough that I offered to make one for the second highest bidder as well. So, the school got double the donations, two people got a unique piece of art, and I discovered how popular rainbows are, which is fine with me because I love them too.
7.5″ x 10″
2019
$75
There is a lot more weaving in this second iteration than the first, and it’s also a bit more square. I like the areas with more open weaving where angles get looser and slightly more angular. I also can’t help but see R2D2 with this combination of colors. The variety of techniques is intriguing.
7″ x 9.5″
2018
$75
I had an idea to sew some strips to squares and then weave them. Then I went back to fill in with more weaving along with stitching to keep it together. I’ve used both the strips and the squares before, but the weaving is new. I like how the blocks of stitching complete the imperfect grid.