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Inspiration for Tuesday, November 11 – 2008

 

Texture

Harvest

I thought I wouldn’t have any hedgeapples this year as I could only see a couple in the tree.  But the wind blew and down they came. They do seem to be like apples, bearing bigger crops in alternate years.

Karen Stiehl Osborn put her hedgeapples to good use in painting. She also cut a hedgeapple in half and made a print:

Great ideas, Karen!  I mainly collect them for my Dad who believes they keep the spiders out of his shop.

Jim Mason of the Great Plains Nature Center has a web page with information about hedgeapples, a.k.a. osage orange.

Haiku count since July 14:  475 (down with the flu last week).

I wrapped up the two-year run of The Garbage Day Project last week, but all the photos (both beautiful and crazy) will remain up for your inspiration. I will be posting garbage day photos here on Inspiration Tuesday periodically.

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11 2008


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Portage: Set Forth – Available at SAQA Auction


Portage:  Set Forth

The Studio Art Quilt Associates benefit reverse auction, One Square Foot, opens tomorrow.  My Portage: Set Forth is in the first group of 12″ square art quilt that will be available with the price dropping each day. 

SAQA is “a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt through education, exhibitions, professional development and documentation.”  I am happy to donate this artwork to further the goals of this professional organization.

I actually took photos during the creation of this artwork; read my Technique Talk here.

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11 2008


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Exhibit opening in Arizona


Boundary Waters 32

Art Quilts XIII: Lucky Break, a juried exhibition of contemporary art quilts, will be on display November 7-December 31, 2008, at the Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave, Chandler, AZ.

Admission is free.  Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday. An opening reception featuring many of the artists, and the music of jazz guitarist Pete Pancrazi, takes place Friday, Nov. 7, from 7-9 p.m. Admission to this special event also is free.

“This year’s exhibition includes works of artists from four countries, the United States, Canada, Belgium and Israel. The pieces were selected to represent the very wide range of techniques and design solutions artists use today to create contemporary pieces.  Those techniques range from painting and monoprinting to photo transfer and machine piecing,” says juror/organizer Diane Howell, a Chandler resident.  It is estimated that approximately 10,000 people view the show every year.

Boundary Waters 32 is 21″h x 66″w.  It is like the other work in the Boundary Waters series in that it is constructed of white cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, and thread, but different in that it is stitched to within an inch of its life.

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is known for its cliffs and rocky outcroppings, worked in endless layers by erosion, volcanic activity, and glaciers. Huge sheet of granite were broken, tilted and folded beginning over 2.7 billion years ago.  The end result is the wonderful landscape my sister and I are privileged to enjoy as we paddle along:  long narrow lakes, jagged shorelines and towering cliffs.

 

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11 2008


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Inspiration for Tuesday, November 4


Russet

The prairie is just stunning this time of year.  The paths are mown very wide to accommodate the wagons used for the “Halloween on the Prairie” event.  Below are two of the participants of that event:

Haiku count since July 14: 460

Big announcement over at The Garbage Day Project today.

I voted; have you?

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11 2008


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What I’m Working On

Stitching, stitching, stitching.  One stitch at a time.  It is slow going on Discarded, but I’m thinking as I’m doing the stitching how long this is taking and how short a time the Tyvek jacket was worn.  I”m thinking that the time spent handstitching this artwork is as important of a statement as the artwork itself;  a balancing in the universe.

This photo in the Boundary Waters of a “double” moon inspired the two following pieces.  Plus I just wanted to work with a circular form; it’s so organic and holds so many connotations. These are works in progress.


Boundary Waters ?:  Double Moon


Boundary Waters ?:  Double Moon (detail)


Boundary Waters ?:  Double Moon 2


Boundary Waters ?:  Double Moon 2 (detail)

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11 2008


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