{"id":10033,"date":"2025-11-05T20:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=10033"},"modified":"2025-11-09T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:44:58","slug":"round-puffy-landforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=10033","title":{"rendered":"Round Puffy Landforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve always found interest in the processes that produce landforms on different kinds of material, so much so that I studied geomorphology at university, so not surprising perhaps that the Earth’s surface has influenced my art. In the 80s, I was <\/em>definitely aware of being inspired by the shapes, lines, colours, and textures of Landscape; but I wasn’t thinking much about my emotional reactions to it. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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“Pahoehoe 1″ 1995 80cm x 70cm. Wall quilt inspired by the pattern of molten rock billowing out and cooling into cushion-like forms below water leved. The Polynesian term for this process is ‘pahoeho’ (apologies for the poor photo)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This poor quality image is of a 1995 work, “Pahoehoe 1”<\/em> and there are several other works from that time based on these landforms<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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“Pahoehoe 2” 1996. 120cm x 130cm. Irregular shape – What looks like pale blue areas are holes showing wall behind the hanging.<\/em><\/strong> (apologies for the poor photo)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I addition to the those two, there are others prompted by an experience while I was an artist in residence in Katherine NT, one very hot afternoon hiking up a dry river bed of rounded stones to a bush picnic spot. I did several based on that memory, including Sunburnt Fragments<\/em> and Afterglow<\/em>, below:<\/p>\n\n\n

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“Sunburnt Fragments” 1998. 70cm x 98cm<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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“Afterglow” 1999. 198cm x 115cm<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I’ve done lots of creating with these shapes in 2D, but as my regular readers will know, I am increasingly interested in 3D soft sculptural forms, including Growth<\/em>, which will be showing in my upcoming exhibition in Madonado Uruguay opening January 2nd.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n

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In a recent sunday morning browse on Pinterest, I came across a wonderful sculptural fibre piece, and followed the link to fibre artist Tininha Silva’s website<\/strong><\/a> . Her clear, brief statements really resonated with my own inspiration from organic patterns in and on the Earth’s surface. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The longer I spend making fibre art, the less surprised I am to discover links back to my past, like threads running through the different parts of my life.<\/em><\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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