As the season moves toward spring, and green buds and shoots are starting to brave the world, we had a snowfall here, nearly an inch. It all melted very fast, but a reminder how early spring so often is a dance between the cold and the warm, intertwined in a way that is quite lovely though sometimes inconvenient.
Since I’ve been obsessed with making little stars and flowers from yarn woven onto pipe-cleaner frames (“darn stars”), my work table it covered with fiber scraps. perhaps inevitable that some would eventually get glued down to a page.
ALT: ink and fiber, abstract. perhaps a glass vase on the right, and leaning over it a branch with no leaves, but maybe watery and fibrous … flowers?
ALT: water-soluble crayon. sort of abstract, but resembles flower arrangement. on the right, something gracefully grass-like in a bulbous purple vase. on the left an orange, fungal climbing thing, embracing three green discs. three seeds or pebbles in a pile in the lower left corner
ALT: water-soluble crayon. a black cat sits looking out a window. a small purple princess smiles withe her arm around the cat. a large blue motherly person looms over both, eyes closed, and smiling gently.
ALT: water-soluble crayon, abstract. bands of colored stripes drape across the top and down the right side. an orange stick pierces where the drape bends. the stick is topped by a doodled sketch of a 5-pointed star cradling circles in the space between its points.
ALT: water-soluble crayon. a series of 9 horizontal horizon lines, each with a dome or bubble resting on it, all in pastel shades of blue, green, purple and orange.
ALT: water-soluble crayon. it’s some kind of person, in a blue gown and with blue headdress. grinning wide and toothily, clasping hands and little feet poking out. the head is almost as big as the rest of the body; the eyes are wide and a little scary.
ALT: water-soluble crayon. a pair of personages on a stroll together. one has a purple dress and spiky blue-green hair. the other in some kind of brown garment that looks a little furry.
ALT: crayon. four horizontal lines, with brown blocks between them like spacers. each line is being grasped by robot or insect-like arms and pincers. they appear tangled, but are staying out of each others’ way.
And what is being woven? In my studio, it’s more of these darn stars.
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