Markings #13
Markings #13 ©2007 30"x 40"
Delivered
A few weeks back I said I wasn’t going to make any new work for my upcoming show, Markings: Repetition and Pattern, as I had enough. Then I remembered that not all the walls in the gallery are really 7 feet high because of the cool ceiling, which you can see in the photos from my show in 2006. Oops!
So I did some juggling of my existing work and realized I needed 2 additional pieces for things to fit correctly and look the way I wanted.
I put the stitching on the binding of the last piece at 9am this morning. Today at lunch I delivered 15 pieces to Boulder for the show. Yay! They started hanging it before I left and I’m super excited. Can’t wait to see all of them up on the wall on Saturday.
The Series
I’ve now completed 19 pieces in the Markings series. Fifteen pieces will be in this show. Markings #3 is currently in Materials Hard and Soft and Markings #6 is headed to Artist and Quiltmaker in Ohio later this year.
That leaves 2 pieces without a show. Markings #13 is one of those pieces. The surface stitching of this piece is different than my normal "echo the lines" plan. It definitely stands out when you see it in person with all the red, orange and purple stitching over the blues and greens. Very cool effect. I have no doubt someday this piece will find a happy home, just not today.
Much Deserved Break
After work I stopped by redbox and grabbed a movie to watch, The Jane Austen Book Club, and picked up an order from my favorite local Thai place.
Wonderful evening with tom kha (coconut milk soup with lots of lemon grass and other spices) and firecrackers (deep fried shrimp with the most amazing spicy tangy sauce). These folks are brilliant. Finished it off with See’s Candy.
Yum.
Now off to bed at 8:30pm.
Tomorrow I’ll go down to the studio and take a look at all the bare white walls and think about what’s next.
Posted by Lisa in: Being an Artist
Tagged: food, markings series, Markings: Repetition and Pattern
Dianna in Maui said,
February 19, 2008 @ 3:38 pm
Hi Lisa,
Just wondering how you sign/label your work? I don’t recall seeing your signature on the front of your pieces. It seems like the label is always a last minute after-thought for me and I want something nicer. Did you design something special that you use all of the time? Change it for each piece?
Lisa Call said,
February 19, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
I wrote a post about this a while back - read it here
Ed Terpening said,
February 20, 2008 @ 12:23 am
Beautiful work, Lisa. Always a pleasure to stop into your virtual studio/gallery and see the latest.
melissa lanitis gregory said,
February 20, 2008 @ 5:29 pm
This sounds like my idea of a perfect evening!
A while back, you mentioned that your kids are off traveling for three months, which I guess affords you this kind of break… does that mean you homeschool?
Lisa Call said,
February 20, 2008 @ 11:17 pm
Thanks Ed!
Yes, It was an awesome evening Melissa - I rarely watch movies at home and never watch TV so when I do it’s a huge luxury. I don’t home school. Although their dad is doing some homeschooling while they are in Europe to keep the kids up to date. My kids don’t go to a normal public school with a lot of busy work so it’s not too much work to keep up. Several of their teachers just said ‘absorb Europe - that’s plenty’. Here’s a post I made a while back about their school: http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/09/conform.html
melissa lanitis gregory said,
February 21, 2008 @ 11:16 am
The school sounds awesome…if we had something like that here, I’d consider sending my youngest! But as it is, we are dedicated homeschoolers. Travel is such a great way to learn. And, if gives you some down time. Wonderful.