One interesting image in today’s Pinterest updates was of collages, and following a link took me to a group of little works in small boxes arranged and fixed to the wall; I pinned it to my presentations board as I’m always interested in how other fibre artists present their works. Following that link took me to a whole page of such collections of small boxes of fibre and paper art in various sizes and arrangements.
Following links online can take one down lots of rabbit holes, and one I mentioned in yesterday’s post was the German artist Beate Hien who’d created a framed work I saw on Pinterest, and thinking it was stitching, went to her website where I found that pic on the prints page . As I looked around I found her lovely, interesting work is not stitch as I’d presumed, but paper in various forms and techniques. I was a bit disappointed there was no artist statement on her site.
I was not only browsing in Pinterest, though, because for a new Instagram post I was looking in my own photos for more beach sand pics that have inspired some of my works https://www.instagram.com/schwabealison/p/DU3h_IOicK1/ and then came across this photo of a quilt I rediscovered some time back:
Although I finished it completely at the time, I’m sure I must have known back 14 years ago that this was no major opus 🙂 I photographed it in 2023, just after I’d unfolded it but it’s back in the cupboard again. Now there’s a heap of critical comments I could make about it because its blindingly obvious I didn’t give enough thought to the finished texture results, as (1) the sand ridges should have been painted in a lighter colour than the background to stand out, and (2) they could have been given a bit of trapunto treatment before the piece was layered and stitched, which would have also enhanced the dimensional effect.
Looking back at older works periodically is always useful, I’ve found.
