A couple of weeks ago I did my usual thing of looking at the calendar to see what was coming up the next week and realized there was a deadline I had forgotten about. A LOOMING deadline.
Good grief – why is it that I can’t get myself to work on these things ahead of time? Of course I begin to mull things over in my head as soon as I know the requirements for the show so it wasn’t a huge scramble to come up with a new idea. It would have been kinder to my self to have begun at least a week earlier though so that I could have more time to test variations on my ideas.
The theme of this show was “Rituals.” It is a juried invitational – which means the curators invite a number of people to participate – but the final artworks still have to go through a jury process and have a chance of being rejected. I think it’s a good thing. The organizers start with a set of known artists whose work they admire but the artists are still encouraged to do their best work, knowing it isn’t a sure bet.
I started with a portrait taken by the talented photographer, Julia Wade. It’s been a favorite of mine for a long time and she gave me permission to create artwork from her photography. Remember – just because you’ve paid for a piece or art or photography does not mean you own the copyright – that remains with the artist.
I played for a day with photoshop and different iterations of the portrait until I came up with something I liked then spent another day fussing with my wonderful (but persnickety) wide format Epson printer.
Next I created a thermofax screen with swirly circles on it and printed some white on white cloth. I think circles are a major theme in much of my work. When I’m thinking about them deeply, as I was in this piece, they represent something whole, something never-ending, things that are connected. Most of the time – they are just my favorite shape to play with.
Check in tomorrow for the rest of the story.
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Lyric Art — Linked traveling to Sacred Threads
June 4, 2015 at 2:18 pm[…] can see some of the “how it’s made” process here (pt1) and here […]
Kit Lang
March 26, 2012 at 11:20 amI'm excited about it already!
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