http://blog.lisacall.com/2007/02/structures-49.html Images and writing about my abstract contemporary textile art by Lisa Call. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:58:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://blog.lisacall.com/2007/02/structures-49.html#comment-9906 janina Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:19:27 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2007/02/structures-49.html#comment-9906 Lisa, I think maybe you ought to have a look at some very good Aboriginal art. I think you will see that your quilts, of the Structures series I have seen so far, have similar elements to them. The quilt as the final, I presume (the top image in this post), to me could be seen as a brown field lying fallow with ghost-like images of people of the soil in it (people of the land). The yellow strip on the left could be a field of canola, with the green bits on top as a small forest of some kind that acts as a windbreak to that field. These are primitive, but essential, stories that you are telling in your quilts. Are you an Aborigine, by any chance? I think you are well-attuned to that intuitive aspect that defines Aboriginal art, and you ought not to be so hard on yourself! Cheers! Lisa, I think maybe you ought to have a look at some very good Aboriginal art. I think you will see that your quilts, of the Structures series I have seen so far, have similar elements to them. The quilt as the final, I presume (the top image in this post), to me could be seen as a brown field lying fallow with ghost-like images of people of the soil in it (people of the land). The yellow strip on the left could be a field of canola, with the green bits on top as a small forest of some kind that acts as a windbreak to that field. These are primitive, but essential, stories that you are telling in your quilts. Are you an Aborigine, by any chance? I think you are well-attuned to that intuitive aspect that defines Aboriginal art, and you ought not to be so hard on yourself! Cheers!

]]> http://blog.lisacall.com/2007/02/structures-49.html#comment-9659 Lisa Call Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:32:51 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2007/02/structures-49.html#comment-9659 Yes Olga, these pieces (#50 that I'm quilting right now also) were very different with the large open spaces. I want to get back to that and as I've been quilting these I've been thinking of some new ideas to explore along those lines. Yes Olga, these pieces (#50 that I’m quilting right now also) were very different with the large open spaces. I want to get back to that and as I’ve been quilting these I’ve been thinking of some new ideas to explore along those lines.

]]> http://blog.lisacall.com/2007/02/structures-49.html#comment-9655 Olga Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:21:16 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2007/02/structures-49.html#comment-9655 Very interesting though the colour differences are - isn't it just fascinating what happens when neighbours are changed - I find even more intriguing the wide open spaces in this design. I went back to your website to look for more examples of large unmediated areas of colour, and apart from perhaps Structures #41 I didn't see another. Somehow this feels like a different kind of statement to me - and I'm not sure yet how I'm reacting to it. Very interesting though the colour differences are - isn’t it just fascinating what happens when neighbours are changed - I find even more intriguing the wide open spaces in this design. I went back to your website to look for more examples of large unmediated areas of colour, and apart from perhaps Structures #41 I didn’t see another. Somehow this feels like a different kind of statement to me - and I’m not sure yet how I’m reacting to it.

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