In lieu of some bathroom humor involving some really excellent borscht, I have opted to post a photo of my newest piece. You all can thank me at any time.
I did the first panel of this piece last fall. I was unhappy with the result and decided to do a second panel to "fix" some of the design problems I had with the piece. Here is the result. It is 66 inches wide by 47 inches high. I'm not sure the black background is the best--and certainly the photographer needs some assistance. Actually, a new camera would be a great asset. I took this with my Pentax point and shoot and the zoom distorts the weaving--so every weaving I photograph looks like it is bowed. I adjusted the horizontal panel in this photo pretty well, but the vertical panel remains skewed. Hopefully a new camera will be coming my way soon so I can stop banging my head against my tripod in frustration late at night (a common photographing scene in my house as I take the photos after dark to try to control the light better). In fact as I look at the photo downloaded here, it is extremely blurry around the edges. I think I'll have to fix that before I send this file to a juried show. I'll post a better photo when one materializes.
The title of the piece is "Inscription." The piece was inspired by Anni Alber's thoughts about thread as text. "Through her continuous investigation of thread as a carrier of meaning, not simply as a utilitarian product, she was able to create art that functions as a visual language..." (Anni Albers (by Nicholas Fox Weber and Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi): Thread as Text: The Woven Work of Anni Albers, Virginia Gardner Troy, pg 28). I have been reading about Anni and her work for the last couple years as part of the Bauhaus project I'm involved with--which I will update you all about soon! As a big reader and a worshiper of the written word (as well as a person with a large book tumor growing in her home), I loved the idea of creating a weaving that the viewer scanned for meaning somewhat like one would read text. This piece was the result.
This is beautiful, Rebecca. Did you take this as one photo, or as two, merged? If you just took one photo, you could try taking each piece separately, then merge them in Photoshop, as long as the background is the same. That might help the bowing problem. But it really isn't bad, and I think most jurors would recognize it as a camera distortion.
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Thanks Kathy! This photo was taken as one piece, but I could definitely try the merging thing as long as I can get the sizes right.
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