Monday, April 8, 2013

Monday (I think) WIPS

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Did I tell you anything at all about what I'm doing with these textile art pieces?  I don't think I did.  Here is another little peek into my process.  This is a project I've been incubating for the last year.  Through the art, I'm working through ideas of what I'm calling personal landscapes, thinking about how people and families are shaped and influenced by the landscapes they exist in.  I'm doing a piece for every place I've lived.

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Each piece starts with a vintage napkin or towel or hankie which becomes my canvas.  Some pieces will have actual pieces of the earth from that spot.  With each, I'm thinking about what the strongest feelings that place conjures up for me are.

I need to get back to it, so I'll show and tell you more later.  In the meantime, I'd love to hear your ideas on the subject.  How are you affected by the landscape that surrounds you? How has it shaped your family?
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3 comments:

  1. PJApril 8, 2013 at 4:47 PM

    Bobbi, this is awesome - and I can't wait to see more! What a fascinating idea! I'm really intrigued by how you're going to incorporate actual natural elements into your work.

    As for landscape's impact on me - I live for the warm weather here so i can ride the miles and miles of country roads near here on my bike. I feel so alive and deeply connected near the towering corn, or soybean fields that are so dense and uniform you could spread a table cloth on them and have lunch. The odd thing is that I'm not from farm country - rather a little steel-town-that-once-was. Yet it's so familiar.

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  2. UnknownApril 8, 2013 at 5:49 PM

    I love that imagery of table cloth! My first piece up there is about Iowa, so I get what you're saying about the uniform fields.

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  3. UnknownApril 10, 2013 at 1:03 PM

    What an interesting idea to piece your past spaces into something that can work together in your current space. I want to see more also:)

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