these past couple of weeks have not found my fingers doing much needle chanting, but my imagination has not been as idle as my lazy fingers. today i found myself browsing through old photos from projects years ago and i came across a stash of photos from my old goddess project collection. it was a series of mixed media, fiber based art doll jewelry celebrating the divine feminine that i had created nearly a decade ago after first moving here to montana. these are only a few of the many pieces that comprised that collection, but they got me what iffing again...
what if i were to infuse the figure with my current body of slow cloth work? what sort of characters might emerge? what range of textures and media incorporations might be inspired to translate 3d figures into 2d representations? after three decades of creating 3d cloth figures in the guise of bears, rabbits, dragons, dolls and so forth, what challenges might manifest to go the opposite direction? to render a two dimensional figure that still exudes life and depth and movement?
how do i do this without losing my focus on fragments and story? i have some ideas forming. whispering from the dark corners of my mind. and my fingers are beginning to itch in anticipation...
namaste'
As I read your story of thoughts today...a story of looking behind at your journey with the three dimensional and now walking with slow cloth I hear also the story of Grace with her fiber dolls....now transitioning to slow cloth and diaries...and I smile...synchronicity a thread that often ties the people of cloth
ReplyDeletealways a circle of one sort or another. cycling round and round...
Deletethe fiber art jewelry dolls are gorgeous! for integration with your "slow cloth", perhaps looking at each one (or photographing with) the "wrong end" of binoculars? perhaps with the idea that we often see only parts, not the whole fabric, of our lives, except from a bit of distance? whatever you have cookin', can hardly wait to see! thanks for the eye candy!
ReplyDeletealways a joy to hear the thoughts of others as they commune with my art and ideas!
DeletePeggy had a post recently about paisaje cloth. Dolls are used to tell the story.
ReplyDeletehttp://womanwithwingsblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/paisaje-cloth_15.html
Your art dolls are so beautiful and could weave any story you chose. :)