Building Blocks at Marion Art Center
Plastic bags of ice; autumn olive dyed wool felt; Building Blocks 1.
Time for the summer member’s exhibition at the Marion Art Center. Since moving to the South Coast in 2020, the member exhibits offer a chance to evaluate how my work’s changed in six months.
The big realization? Experiments and process stack up in the studio, but there is virtually nothing completely finished. Ok, I guess. The process and time has been instructive.
What are the materials for my fiber art these days?
- Stitching with plastics – the stuff that we’d normally toss and cannot be recycled.
- Using materials at hand.
These parameters give me lots of room and interesting results. I’m calling this series Building Blocks.
Scientists report that plankton, the building block of our oceans, consume and sometimes process micro plastics found throughout the water column.
Building Blocks: 1 was finished in time for last October’s @Doorway_a_Gallery skill share, so I took the path of least resistence and just dropped it off for the show.
This piece includes wool felt that I overdyed with Autumn Olive leaf dye bath, embroidered using cut up ice bags from our summer cruise and machine quilted.
My hub worries that my plastic hoarding habit is growing, so I guess it’s time to finish more work so he can understand what I’m really up to.
Plastic and stitching can be a great combo – especially because it performs pretty nicely when left outside. Hmmm….
The reception is August 12, 2022 from 5 – 7 pm. Hope to see you there!
