hangin' on rooftops

Very little more satisfying than a Monday off where the sun is shining.  In the future I want to learn to surf on Mondays, but today, the first weekday in June I tested out the Inkodye (a less toxic cyanotype substitute) on the roof.  Results will have to be posted later, they were subtle as I was working with blue on dyed silk, but I did a piece on white silk & it gives a good depth of color.  The intensity of the sun (late afternoon sun at that!) I'm sure also helped. 

The plastic shapes from Canal Plastics were fun, and the grates on the rooftop already helped fight against the avid wind.  

Images of work

Silkscreen: discharge print on cotton, 2010

Silkscreen: discharge print on silk, 2010

Cyanotype on cotton, 2011

Arashi shibori on silk, 2011

Arashi shibori on silk, 2010

Woven Shibori: cotton, 2011

Woven Shibori: cotton, 2011

Silkscreen: discharge print on cotton, 2009

Woven: dyed warp, 2011

Dyed silk with overdye, 2012

Arashi Shibori: silk, 2012

Painted cotton, 2011

Shibori: silk, 2011

Shibori: silk, 2011

Devoré: 2011

Devoré (detail): 2011

Arashi Shibori: silk, 2011

Shibori: silk, 2011

Shibori: cotton, 2011

Hand block print: cotton, 2011

Woven Shibori: cotton, 2012

Arashi Shibori: cotton, 2011

Dogs in cathedrals, toys in the streets

These photos were taken in strollings about town.  Inspired, Inspiring.  Texture, movement, color and life are at every corner.

El Anatsui My Visual Hero

So the Brooklyn Museum has an incredible exhibit of El Anatsui's work up, now until August 13th.  If you can, go.  You will encounter what are truly significant works of art.  He has been one of my favorite living and working artists for a while now, ever since I wandered into Jack Shainman Gallery years ago and had my mind completely blown.  More majestic regal and nuanced work has never crossed my path, and as an appreciator of all things textile, his use of metal astounds.  I was particularly taken somehow with the shadows the works made on the walls, and took some photos. Want to use them to create an El Anatsui inspired collection of textile designs.

Old Work New Perspective

RECENTLY took a trip to my old home, Montréal, QC-  while there, visiting friends and family, I was surprised by just how much of my work was on their walls.  It was work I had forgotten about, but rewarding to reconnect.  

Surface Textile Designs

Fall and winter 2012 I was gainfully engaged in an internship with a great artistic Textile Design company based out of NY and London.  I had a great time with them, painting and drawing, and realized in the process that if I am to make any commercially successful work at all, I have a lot to learn in the way of Photoshop and Illustrator.  Whew!  So here are a few images of designs that I had a hand in, and that you may see variations of in stores from Sweden to San Francisco. . .