I finally finished the long silk and cotton hanging entitled, "Hiroshima". I really let loose on this fabric and as I said in a posting below, I dyed the chiffon, discharged it to the point of destroying fiber, attached it to a cotton underlining, applied metallic paint, applied more fabric paint and then acrylic house paint, sewed, machine stitched, cut and tore holes, reattached pieces of silk here and there, did some more hand stitching and gathering and now it is finished. There was a point where I threw it in the sink all wadded up and just dumped powdered dye and chems on it and left it over night to do something- anything. This is a great example of knowing as an artist that there is potential and a good piece inside there; it just had to be worked and reworked and reworked until it appeared. Sometimes you have to let a piece go as it is just plain overworked and to save yourself time,money and materials you just have to leave it and move on to other things. This one wasn't like that. I knew I had to see it through to the end. I'm glad I did.
Here is a detail again for you to see the layers of color and texture. I really like this piece. Final dimensions are: 27" x 83" (not including the bamboo rod).
4 comments:
Beautiful work Marjie. The Hiroshima piece is outstanding. I do like what you have done with the stitching, and the bottom of the piece is outstanding. I would like to see it in reality, i'm sure that my screen does not do justice to the colours.
What an amazing blog you have. I have never heard of the Bronze Shoe Man, and up he pops! Magic!
Wow! You are having such a great time with these pieces. The exhibit is going to be just fabulous. Keep creating.
Lee
Thank you so much for your encouragement. You guys always lift me up and what would we be if we didn't have cheerleaders along the way?
As Myrna would say, "hugs"!
very cool, very cool :) I shall have to check back on your blog often!
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