Sketchbook

 

Good News and

 

The good news is that I have distributed all of these Crops as part of my Art Exstallation Project!  URI students from China, Ukraine, France, Italy, Indonesia, and South Korea received these pieces last evening at the Community English Class, and they promise to take them along when they return home.

The other news is that Cartographies of Perpetual Rejuvenation (see last post) did not get accepted into the Hera Gallery show.  There were 450 entries for 25 spots so I don't feel too bad about this one.  And I will soon submit it to another show coming up in Westerly, RI.

Waiting

 

Cartographies of Perpetual Rejuvenation  (CPR) is a multimedia work featuring stratified continents and islands floating on a pieced fiber Ocean of Consistent Kindness. This visual geography of layered time and healthy aging includes attributes recognized to contribute to longevity, such as vitality, cognition, curiosity, imagination, and endorphins.

Juventud Continent includes an Arboretum of Eternity, City of Comfort and Connection, and elements of both forgiveness and gratitude.  Eudemonia is a continent of forever delight and timelessness. Imagination Island offers the First School of Moss and a Forest of Infinite Branching.  The Island of Perpetual Learning reveals the value of experience across time from simple nutrition to the maturation of love and the soul.

Submitted 3/11/22 to Hera Gallery show: "The Perfect Age: Reflections on the Passage of Time"

Waiting to hear if this piece will be in the show!

Rubble and Road

 

The Rubble and The Road documents the essential structure of life, both the focused intentional pathway, as well as the detritus and unintended consequences of our single-minded pursuits.  Even with our eyes open, we do not typically co-exist with the actual costs and conditions of our passage.  Progress is complex and convoluted. What would we gain by learning to acknowledge, and perhaps even to occasionally inhabit, the rubble that flows alongside the road of life ?  This multimedia collage interrogates the conjunction of rubble and road and proposes a mutuality and possibly even a form of beauty in the juxtaposition. Textures, shapes, and colors collide and form new purposes for the ongoing adventure of LIFE.

Hurricane

I created this piece after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, but it applies to any of the more recent devastating storms as well.  The full title is "Hurricane Sandy Broken Glass."  It occurs to me now that if I create another "Hurricane" piece, it will have a more encompassing title reflecting how much more is broken than just glass.

My Purpose

"My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset ... to strive, to seek, to find..."

These words are inscribed on the piece with free-motion calligraphy.  The quotation is from one of my most favorite poems, Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson.  It ends with the words, "and not to yield."

I've put a link to the whole poem below for anyone interested:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses

Cinque Terra

My sister, Nina, and I visited several of the villages of Cinque Terra in Italy.  That visit inspired me to create this fiber scene of the charming hillside towns.  Nina is a painter and I will ask her to share any of her work inspired by the same scenes.