Showing posts with label mysteries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mysteries. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

"Portal in Citrine"


22"x15", cotton, satin, metallic paper, embroidery, machine stitching, stamped cloth and flour paste resist.

This art cloth is large for me and I trimmed it with an edging from a cut up scarf. I used  some studio finds such as metallic paper ( it was rolled up in a corner) and the black mottled cloth that had been a fragment of a printmaking rag ...beauty can be found anywhere! Mixing the color citrine and using it to dye or color different fabrics was a fun challenge.
This art making journey I'm on is of ancient lessons and stories, about entering gates, portals and thresholds ... places of wisdom and discovery. I'm finding the study very inspirational and full of imagery.This particular gate concerns mystery, the idea there are mysteries and some are unknowable ... the mystery is that there are mysteries.