...when she taught me to sew! I can't really pinpoint
what motivated me to do this-maybe all those lovely papers I've been
collecting and altering? All I know is that I kept waking up in the morning
with the urge to sew these papers together, so....I lugged the sewing machine to
the studio, wrestled with the tension knob, and started sewing! I love
the pattern stitching makes- even without thread, but then there are of course
a whole palette of colors of thread, and the lovely little threads that are
like fringe along the edge. And bonus- I can immerse them in wax as well
so they can play with my encaustic works!
Here’s an example of how one came about...
arranging and selecting the papers/shapes/textures...
(an old intaglio print that I painted on,
(see this post http://holzstudiosampling.blogspot.com/2015/10/altered-papers.html),
banana bark paper, a page from an old encyclopedia of Britannica about louis XVI...)
(an old intaglio print that I painted on,
(see this post http://holzstudiosampling.blogspot.com/2015/10/altered-papers.html),
banana bark paper, a page from an old encyclopedia of Britannica about louis XVI...)
stitching some of the layers together...
considering the background...
keeping the threads out of the way from the blowtorch and wax...
auditioning it on its panel...
adding some more layers of texture and staining- and i think she's done....
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