The white rabbits seem to hop past faster and faster.
Yesterday's Textiles and Tea, with the wonderful Char Norman, was a great impetus to make paper and use some of my natural dyes from the freezer to color the pulp, and mold it, revisiting things I did long ago.
She weaves, coils, draws, makes and casts paper and has adventures all over the world working with natural materials. She likes to reflect her surroundings in her work, like using cactus in its environment, in a kind of conversation with her surroundings.
A lot of what look like rocks are cast paper pieces simulating rocks and petroglyphs. Some items are natural objects, like the cactus lacy interior below
Here she is against a backdrop of linen thread, her favorite warping material.
She's an exciting multitalented worker, always ready for new pathways. Currently she's started working with a glass artist to incorporate fiber and glass. Can't wait to see what happens there.
About stealth art: I would hang small rope snd paper sculptures from local trees so people would look twice. One piece I did consisted of filling a small dead wild cherry tree with rocks gathered from around it, so you could see them in the open spaces in the trunk. I took pictures, did drawings, made image transfers of the Polaroid pictures, which were exhibited, and left the tree as I'd done it.
This was particularly fun, since it was at the edge of a golf course, and I was out walking one day while two golfers were searching for lost golfballs. They noticed the tree and one said "squirrels did that"! Stealth indeed.
I really like her work! And I love the reaction of the golfer to your work. Squirrels. They're clever but not that clever.
ReplyDeleteSquirrels may well hide acorns and other nuts in a hollow tree but rocks?
ReplyDeleteSee? You fooled those golfers. They did indeed notice and stop to think but not quite enough. I would have been totally mystified. I probably would have thought, "Kids."
I love the concept of stealth art! But it's not fair when squirrels get the credit, LOL!
ReplyDeleteStealth art - over the summer months I noticed a number of painted rocks around the town, some obviously done by children but a lot were done by adults. Such a fun bit of whimsy to discover. I know there are people who knit things like scarves, hats and mittens and leave them out in the 'wild' with notes that they're free for the taking. Don't think squirrels could be blamed for that!!
ReplyDeleteCute. Ove the pandemic there have been painted rocks and tiny scenes posted here and there in local parks and walks.
ReplyDeleteThe painted rocks are a subset of the stealth idea. They're meant to be easily spotted and maybe collected. The subset I do, like rocks tumbled into hollow trees, or rope works hanging between and from branches, are different. They're not meant to be obviously made by people, but reward the sharp eye of the observer who comes to realize they're not, after all, natural forms. Different, equally nice, experiences.
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