Several different studio projects this week are connected by the idea of looking THROUGH.

Looking through a transparent color complement
 I’ve started creating a new set of matted collages using hand-printed fabrics from my bins of quilt leftovers. Recently most of my collages have been based on landscapes. I wanted to play with squares and rectangles – just shapes – in a more quilterly way.

After I got down the squares and rectangles, I realized that these very pleasing shapes were not a finished composition. Rather, they are backgrounds. To make them come alive, I’m painting over the rectangular shapes with thin glazes of acrylic, rounded shapes, and in a complementary color to what’s underneath.

I like the way all the parts now speak to each other in a completely new way.

(I finished two of these collages. There are links to the completed works at the end of this blog post if you’d like to learn more.)

Looking through the history
I’ve worked more on the figures in the historical quilt I posted abut last week. I ended up collaging some of the dried grassy shapes inside the interior of each figure. Again, I was pleased with how this began to unify all the sections. And it’s way more interesting than my first method, which was a simple semi-transparent whitewash within the figure.

I will be submitting this quilt to an upcoming juried exhibition. So, I have to set aside any more pictures for a while. (In a month or so when I know the outcome of jurying I will post the finished quilt.)

Looking through to the Memory

A quilt I completed in 2019  titled “Look Through to the Memory” has been accepted into Quilt Visions 2020 at the Visions Museum in San Diego. The exhibit will run October through January. In preparing some supporting documentation for the exhibit, I created a short video. It shows the quilt in close-up sections and includes a poem I wrote based on the work. This is a dream-and-memory-based work and it is my hope that it evokes thought and stirs the emotions of the viewer.

If you’d enjoy seeing the video (about 2 minutes) you can find it on You Tube HERE.

Here are the links for the new fabric collages I described at the top of this post: 

Matted Collages: Seen in a New Way, Revelations, HERE

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--Bobbi

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