Monday, June 10, 2013

New Work - "Mask / face / head"

I was working on the piece in the last post and decided there needed to be some kind of mask / face / head somewhere. I started creating one on a separate, smaller hoop and about a month later I was finished and ready to add it. However the face / head that I ended up with was just too big. So, I decided to use it as the 'center point' of an entirely different work. I stitched it to some larger fabric pieces but it looked a bit naked all by itself, so I added some collage elements around it. I started with a few small scraps of black fabric and eventually added pieces of velvet, lace, trimmings, and other odds and ends including stitched over shapes, not unlike the star shapes I have been doing in previous work. My inspiration was African and Indian clothing and fabric I have seen adorned with various different items. I wanted to keep everything black on black as I have been doing, and of course a photograph does not capture this well.

The face / mask / head was made with metallic floss - both 'pointillized' and also stitched over with smoky monofilament floss, and white cotton floss. 




3 comments:

  1. Your work is so cloesly stitched I can't tell if it is aall hand stitching or machine. It is very interesting though. I love the details and the contrast of the color with the black background

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  2. It's all by hand. I don't have a machine and I don't even know how to operate one!...

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  3. Winner - "Award of Excellence", "Threads", Tubac Center of the Arts.

    http://tubacarts.org/threads-award-winners-announced/

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