A Sense of Place II – Inspiration and Progress
A Sense of Place II, curated by Peg Keeney, is an invitational exhibit for artists working in a series with landscape as their inspiration. Three artworks are required and they must be vertical in orientation. That’s always a tough one for me as I love the horizontal, due to, I believe, the Midwestern horizon line.
I knew I needed to choose as inspiration something that in itself was vertical in nature. Of course, inspiration would come from the Boundary Waters and the three artworks would be Boundary Waters 45 – 47.
I chose for inspiration a photo of the cliffs in the Boundary Waters with Fall color beginning to show (photo above) and laid it next to my sewing machine on hand-dyed cheesecloth and silk in greens and oranges.
I then pulled from my seemingly endless storehouse of scraps and pieces this palette of green, blue-green, orange and brown.
This is one of the three works in progress. I cropped it to not show the background, so the VERY irregular edges do not show. I’m going for organic and the pieces are not flat, not square, and pretty darn exuberant. I’ll be sharing more after I finish them up.
Thank you, Mal! It has been a growing experience to go vertical. V.
Lovely, ethereal, powerful. I also appreciate your insight about the horizon line and your preference for landscape orientation. Can’t wait to see what you come up with next.