adventure

Adventure

digitally printed polyester with hand beading

8×8 inches

This piece was my donation to a fundraiser held at the art center in the town where I grew up.  The event is called The Goods and it is a silent auction for 8×8 inch pieces of original art.  The twist is that all of the art is anonymous until the evening of the event.  So I had to wait until after the event to show you this piece.  I make wall pieces very rarely, but I do like this 8×8 inch format.  This was actually a test print for one of the pieces that was in my Jerome grant show this fall.  It is a photograph of a paper origami butterfly.  That is layered over a collage of text from newspaper and the pages of a “Choose your own Adventure Book” from the thrift store.  This image was digitally printed on fabric.  Then I stitched 4 wavy lines of clear sequins to represent the path that this butterfly is flying, so it shimmers from certain angles.