Sunrise Rerevisited
Markings #24 ©2008 24"x 24"
Sunrise
A few days after posting sunrise photos on my blog in Janurary I was inspired to take some more. Watching the color arise and then recede from the sky is a magical thing to witness.
Markings 24
The idea of making a piece inspired by these photos popped into my head at some point soon after taking them and I needed another small piece for my show. In one of the very few occasions in my art career, I set out to make a piece directly inspired by something I was consciously thinking about. Usually I just create without preplanning the object informing the work.
It felt a bit weird at times trying to represent the layers of the clouds in fabric. It might have helped had I actually looked at the photos, instead I just worked from my memory and feelings of the even. I got stuck for a while, but since I started the piece only 48 hours before the work was due to be delivered to be hung I didn’t stay stuck for long.
So that is the end of new work in my show, Markings: Repetition and Pattern, hanging in Boulder through March 23rd. Next I’ll post some installation photos. Probably not tomorrow, my kids didn’t make it home tonight due to weather but they should be here by noon tomorrow.
Detail Image:
Posted by Lisa in: Abstract Contemporary Textile Art
Tagged: colorado, markings series, Markings: Repetition and Pattern, sunrise
angela Moll said,
March 10, 2008 @ 9:05 pm
Hi Lisa: Thanks a lot for treating us to a daily dose of your Markings exhibit! Congratulations, this is indeed a strong body of work.
Enjoy your children’s return!
Martha Marshall said,
March 11, 2008 @ 4:10 am
Lisa, I do subscribe to your blog and always read it, but don’t comment often as you know. But this morning I had to tell you how much I love this piece, your interpretation of the sunrise, and how beautifully you have painted it in fabric and thread.
Sunrises and sunsets never cease to amaze and thrill me.
Susie Monday said,
March 11, 2008 @ 7:25 am
You captured the color palette beautifully. I looked out in South Texas on a very similar sunrise a couple of days ago, a reminder of all the beauty there is on this fragile but tough little hunk of rock. Thanks for the photos and the work.
Wanda S. Hanson said,
March 11, 2008 @ 10:03 am
Wow, what a great show. I’m looking forward to the installation pictures to get a better perspective on their sizes. Thanks for posting all of them.
cher said,
March 11, 2008 @ 11:25 pm
I too felt you captured/mirrored that glorious feeling and color of sunrise-what a great piece to cap your body of work for this show. It’s been a pleasure to see so many of the pieces in this show- thanks so much for all the great close ups too.
Jessica said,
March 13, 2008 @ 5:16 pm
I love it. But of course I do, I love ALL you do!
Mimi said,
March 14, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
I keep visiting your site, seeing your work, and falling in love with pieces over and over and over again. You have spoken about your process and philosophies, yet I am still baffled by how much incerdibly careful work you are able to produce in, what seems to be, such short periods of time. What a sense of color you have. Fabulous.