1/26/14

SPACE BUNNIES!!!! woodcut in progress



working title: "Intergalactic S.H.I.T. (Space Hares In Time)" or "Deep Space Hraka*"

*-means 'droppings' in Lapine, from Watership Down, by Richard Adams, 1972. 

Carving away at this thing, I'm drawing as I go and am planning on making it a repeat (connecting to itself) so I can paste numerous prints together and have a big wall of bunny madness. So excited!

A Quilt in the works...

2014! I decided to switch gears for a textile project to get this new year going. 

It's my take on a work-clothes quilt, using old denim pants for one side... (shout out to Gee's Bend!)


...and the other side's totally crazy, thanks to all these great fabrics I've collected through the years. 





The story has something to do with a tribe of B&W Colobus monkeys exploring a strange country of jungles, flower gardens, purple-haze, rivers and crop plantations. Watership Down comes to my mind when I start crafting a narrative  about groups of animals exploring unfamiliar territory. Speaking of rabbits, can you spot the White Rabbit candy wrappers sewn on? Still a favorite logo of mine....

I still have much more of the actual quilting to do and a lot of ideas for appliqueing more characters/flowers/symbols into this bizarre world. ( I decided to not put any batting in between the layers,  as the denim already makes this a heavy item, though I'm slightly regretting this decision, wondering if the puffiness of the final quilted stitches has been lost...) I can't wait to be dreaming underneath this thing when it's all finished... I'll post finished pictures when the time comes.

1/14/14

BLACK&WHITE COLOBUS


detail of:
Colobus monkey images appropriated from The Natural History of the Primates, JR & PH Napier. Screenprinted on white bed sheet, green triangles painted with acrylic. The whole thing is about six feet long.
Still in progress on this one, I think some flowers will be coming in next...