For instance, I'm working (although it feels like playing) on a piece that starts on a failed monotype on paper. Failed in the sense that it was a messy pull off the plate, and it just didn't work on its own. To it I've already added some silk and some metal foiling. After I had stitched across the paper--wonder if it dulls needles like it dulls scissors. Probably. But it's become a little piece of art.
My work does better in art shows than in quilt shows, maybe because I've strayed too far from quilt rules--I actually like uneven, big stitches. But that's ok with me I think.
I'm busy working on getting ready for a big solo show in February (in Jacksonville, Illinois, more details later), and I find the freedom of being able to frame or not frame a piece, to include an oddball material like window screening or twigs is a good thing.
So my definition of 'fiber art' is expanding. A picture of the first piece is below....percentage wise, it's around 10% fabric. But paper is fiber. So it's somewhere between fiber art and mixed media and the only time I have to define it is if I enter it in a show with categories.
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Lovely. A different palette than what you've been using. A twist of the grid and it becomes and X. Nice.
And please explain technique for the ginko image?
I like the way you used the ginko leaves in this piece.
The ginko image is a 'ghost monotype'. What that means is I painted a plexi plate, laid ginko leaves on it, then pulled a print off of it. I then removed the leaves, which had served as masks during the first print, and pulled another print. This is that print--the background is much lighter, the leaves themselves are the color of the original plate. Is that clear?
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