Good Design

A children's play area in a bank.

A plastic cover on a metal stake.

It marks the path and covers sharp metal edges.

 A simple design means a minimum amount of wood needs to be carried up the steep track.

The support posts can be adjusted to suit any terrain.

New Design Wall - Whoopie!

For a couple of years I have put up with a major problem with my design wall.
The foam core panels have warped and pulled out from the wall where they weren't attached to a wall stud.

My resident carpenter installed 3 sheets of fibre board.

I covered the boards with pieces of leftover blackout drapery fabric.

I love my new design wall.
Now to get some work up on it.

Foam Art

Ingrid Lincoln, 'Continuum' in Oakville

 

An important element of Ingrid's work is light. She had a challenge installing her work on a dark brick wall and chose to mount the resin encased silk fabric on black.

The work was dramatically changed. 

The 3D resin cubes had to be stacked in a display case some distance from the wall piece.

The added reflective surface of the display case glass pushed the graphic silk elements further back into the cubes. It made the viewer look closely and search.

'Home' Installed With 'Continuum' in Oakville

With this 2nd installation of my graduation work 'Home' I was unable to suspend the frame from the ceiling. I had to modify the work to fit the challenging space in the Oakville Town Hall.

I used 2 of the 4 sheets to make a bed.

And added a plain pillow with a treat.

This installation was also different in that the stitching on both sheets is complete. One year of each tree's biological processes has been recorded chromatically on cloth.

I put the book documenting the process on a chair beside the bed.

Two different installations of the same work responding to two different spaces.

Continuum Installed in Oakville Town hall

Denise Jones installing her work with Rena, the Oakville public art installer looking on. 

Monika Brueckner installing her work, with a World of Threads Festival volunteer, June, looking on.

Judy and Ned Martin installing Judy's large work.

The beginning of my installation. 

Continuum at World of Threads Festival, Oakville

8 of 10 BA(Hons) Embroidered Textiles graduates installed 'Contiuum', their graduation work, in the Oakville Town Hall.
Ingrid Lincoln installs her work.

Val Cross cleans glass before installing her work.

Marilyn Hall assembling her sculptures.

Vikki Jenkins has her sister, Helen, as an assistant.

Stitching Completed on the Tree Cloths

I have stitched the last band on each of the 4 tree cloths.

Each cloth documents the growth of the tree over one year.

The cloth is a chromatic record of biological processes.

The colours and their sequence are different on each cloth.

New Moon Tree colour Studies

Arbutus - the deer love the berries

Falling Cedar branches

Changing colours of the Maple. 

Lichen on Douglas-fir branches 

Play With A Silk Screen

 

 

Whole cloths using Kerr Grabowski's 'Play' technique.
My kind of silk screening.