My Little Artwork

I'm working on a new quilted wall hanging and will probably submit it for the Artist's Invitational Gallery at the next arts festival in April. It's a bit risky doing that. Last year I submitted my Absolutely Your Zen series of alphabetical ink drawings and it got in.

  I think a fiber arts entry is more of a risk because many do not consider something quilted to be "Art" with a capital A. The traditional view is that painting and drawing are 'real' art, plus sculpture, then a little further down, prints and ceramics. Fiber arts are now fighting the battle ceramics did  decades ago, in that ceramic artists don't just make pots the same way fiber artists don't just make quilts.

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 The medium does not dictate what is art. I might even claim you can make art out of anything even, say, macaroni. And I'm not going to define what art is because that discussion has been going on since Glur looked at Jorp in the caves at Lascaux and complemented her on her amazing horse drawings, while Mirk looked on in envy because hers' looked like My Little Pony.

Here's a teaser for my piece called "October", still in the works. Similar to a banner I did of the West Texas Landscape, so I am interested in earthy textures, the soil, the trees, the changing sky, the passage of seasons.

The tree images are from photos I shot then printed out on sheer fabric through my printer.. I am still embellishing with embroidery, and I am thinking of a unique way to hang it, using an actual tree branch.