Visual Artist
I am now providing prints from my monotypes. They are printed on high-quality paper with archival ink at original size unless otherwise requested (sizes vary). Contact me for prices on originals. Prints are unmatted and unframed. Shipped flat.
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I’ve made two lanterns so far. I had made all my painted pattern into sewn strips a couple of weeks ago and no time to make more paper, so I have been working my way through this inventory for the various projects.
The first lantern combines four panels of the strips with some punched circles from my paper stash to embellish each side. I used embroidery floss for the top hanger and strips of fabric for the things at the bottom that hang down. I coated the four sides with beeswax just to stiffen it up a bit.
The second lantern I made used an 8″ square waxed panel I had made for another art project. I cut three more squares that same size and added a fifth square of the beeswax-coated paper to the top to keep the whole thing more square. Again, this one was coated all over with the beeswax. I used the sewn paper strips for the sides.
I’ve been sewing up a storm for the SEWN class with Mary Ann Moss.
I’m a bit off topic, or working larger than was requested in the class for the mat you see in the photo above. The hexagons are about 5 inches; the entire mat uses more than 100 of them to form a 4′ x 4′ square.
I had already planned to make these houses for an art show in the fall called “Structure” at the ARC Gallery in San Francisco.
I envisioned an installation piece, originally thinking the houses would be hung. The houses are made from prints (monotypes) I made during a class many years ago. It was the first printmaking class I ever took, and the first several prints I made were atrocious: bad choice of colors, immature composition, pedestrian design. Still, they were on really nice Rives BFK printmaking paper, so I couldn’t bear to throw them out. I always figured I would cut them up, or work over them in some way. They just sat in a drawer until a project to make paper houses came up at a Women’s Caucus for Art chapter meeting.
I pulled out a stack of the papers and headed to the meeting. I tore off all the white border, then folded them according to the instructions. Each plate used to make prints was a different size, so the houses all ended up being different sizes.
After I cut them to make them three-dimensional, I put them back down flat, worked them over a bit using pastels, then added a coat of encaustic wax. I used the wax to glue the ends and edges together too.
The resulting houses are rigid and smell beautiful. I made a list of all the houses I every lived in and discovered that there were 11 houses I built and 11 houses I’ve lived in, so I assigned an address to each house.
After I put the wax on the houses I didn’t think it would be easy to hang them in a way that they stayed level so I decided to instead put them on the ground.
That’s when I thought it would be great to put them on a mat and decided that mat should be made of hexagons I cut out from old maps someone gave me recently when they bought a car that has built-in GPS.
I wrote on some of the maps, and had other paper I incorporated to make a mat that was four feet wide by four feet long.
When I look down on the houses on the mat, it seems reminiscent of the view you have when you fly over the mid-west. Fields, crops, farms, lakes and green on the landscape below.
I’m ready now to submit this installation piece to some shows – ARC Gallery Structure and also DISCARTED in Ojai.
I finally got my circular window piece for the SEWN class finished today.
I used some prints I made on my encaustic hotplate – it uses wax printed onto Japanese rice paper. I love that it is already starting to be very transparent, even more than vellum.
I boo-booed and stitched those pieces all together in strips, rather than just cutting out the wedges from the paper. But I didn’t let that stop me – I put them all into a circle and then ran out beore it was to the end, so I used one last print I’d made for the last section.
That sort of goes with my always wanting to collage in a piece of art, so it worked for me.
You can’t tell in the photo, but I left the threads long in the middle, like Mary Ann suggested. I like how it looks.
I am on a roll with this SEWN class! I made some paper houses for an upcoming show I want to submit to called Structure. Here’s one of them:
That got me thinking about using the SEWN paper to go three-D somehow. I had some waxed 8x8s from an array I did for a show in May 2012 called ***love***desire***relationship***. They were just sitting all hooked together in a drawer.
They tell the story of Ursula, who repurposes junk from dumpsters in SF into art, then gives it away. She is saved from her potential homelessness by being made Executive Director of a huge foundation to give away art called the Art for Everyone Project.
Anywhooo, the panels from this piece caught my eye and I figured I could use them in this SEWN art. I incorporated one yesterday in a flat collage:
Then, I though I could make some cubes out of the panels with the SEWN paper. I sewed most of it together on the machine, then finished what wouldn’t fit by hand. Then, a light coat of beeswax (encaustic). This helps stiffen and protect it. It is quite durable, as long as you don’t put it in a window where it gets super hot, or the car!
