One of Six

This is one of six small pieces – vectored and tea-stained silks patched together and layered; maybe three or four layers of silk organza cut in squares and reassembled, then covered with a tea-stained scrap from 2006. Love doing these. Tonight thought about a painting from years ago called How to Begin the Ohio Star; might be cool to patch an Ohio Star from vectored silk and proceed from there…

Finished form

Black, White & Tea

Vector practice (abstract marks with found objects, usually sumi ink on silk) continues with a reprise of the group show, this time more domesticated, as in framed, presented in a neat line on a wall – that sort of thing. Layering silk still so appealing. Here is genesis of a larger piece, beginning with a piece of raw silk, found tools (top–foxtail barely seed head, next–a small square of card stock) dipped in black ink. Didn't particularly like the result, cut it up into squares, sewed them together (photo 3), didn't like that either, then layering began. Really like that. It will be matted & framed.

Another overlay

Here's another in the same overlay experiment.

Layers

Found some scraps of tea dyed silk, over-laid the pieced silk squares and something interesting happened. Oh, and under it all is an old drawing set to be reworked.