Here's how I work, a picture taken in my old studio in Lowell.
Jodi, I LOVE this piece...it looks like it is sitting on sand...you've completely transformed the materials. Do you need the plastic newspaper bags? My fiancee gets the Globe daily, for now...let me know and I'll give you bags. The 6ft. scale will take it out of sea growth...and take it into the lovely but threatening....
Jenn: A printmaker who is my student in stitched narratives...now she is beginning to incorporate textile techniques in her work...she also works in the corporate dept. and member services at the Museum! Our class blog Stitched Narratives , features some of her experiments...here's a direct : link
My work? It's all thread...no mixed media on this one. I work with dissolvable stabilizer that I machine embroider...and embroider...
ON TIME IT TAKES: I've accepted that they, like yours, take a ridiculous amount of time...but I'm always reassured when I read about Lenore Tawney's arduous processes...and, as long as they take a viewer somewhere, it's worth the time.
CONCEPT: Usually, I begin with an idea drawn from little drawings from my sketchbook. Retrosective started life with a far different 'end product.' I've been studying and interested in Eve Hesse's work...
But, I was away from my studio during the time I was doing a residency/teaching stint at a middle school in Brockton,MA...and when I pulled it out and hung it up after a couple of months...I realized it was nearly complete with a whole different idea behind it!!!! A nice surprise...
What else can I do? Is your studio near Boston? Let me know...mine is in the S. End at the Boston Center for the Arts...We could do studio visits...
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