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I come from an academic background and have no formal training in art. I purposefully try to create spontaneously, from an emotional, rather than intellectual, center. I am continually surprised, intrigued and often delighted, by the results.
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When I painted Last Conversation (in 2001) I was thinking about my fascination with blinds, shades and windows, and grieving over my mother’s recent death. When the paint dried, I immediately saw that the gel medium I was using both to transfer the pigment and as a resist had created two figures on the left side of the canvas. (I had consciously used labels as a resist to create the “blinds” on the right.) But what did they mean? Months later, I decided I needed to hand stitch this piece. I worked on it, off and on, for several years, but it never seemed quite done. In 2007 I took it up again, finished the handstitching and machine quilted it. I realized I was having a “dialogue” with it as I quilted. The piece resonated with the conversations my mother and I had had during the year she lived with me as she was dying. We never knew which conversation would be the last, so every one had to count. I felt a pure sense of joy when the piece was completed. That week, my brother, who is a psychologist, mentioned to me that the process of grieving usually takes an individual six years. Yes.
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To purchase these works or discuss a commission, please contact me at: fabric8tions@hotmail.com |
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