down to sleep

I've been honored to have been included in the upcoming show, down to sleep, at the Chester F. Sidell Gallery in Lawrence, Massachusettes, curated by Joetta Maue. It runs March 1 through April 13th. 

I'm excited to see the art presented and the catalogue that accompanies the show.

 

Three Figures

I find the human body so fascinating and the imagery capturing the view from within, even more so. Currently I'm working on the sonagrams of the daughter of my collaborating partner, Karen Rips.  I'll share those images later--some are still in the planning stage.

These are three full figures I recently finished. They are almost life size, so quite large, and took quite some time to complete. I used hand-dyed raw silk for the 2 outer pieces and commercially dyed duponi silk for the center piece. I was experimenting with a different palette, which was quite informative and fun, but a challenge.

        Male MRI                                        Female 1 MRI  &  Female 2 MRI

Two Heads

These are two new pieces, both MRIs, showing the view from top of the head. Aren't they amazing images? Both are hand-dyed silk with polyester threads.

The second image is from my friend, Carol. Isn't that grand that she allowed me to stitch it? 

New Work

Marital Bliss

I've been working on a new series of work entitled, Idioms and Other Nonsense. This is one of the series, using MRI scans. Another piece (below), Pillow Talk, uses X-rays.

I received word that Marital Bliss will be apart of Joetta Maue's show, down to sleep, at the
Chester F. Sidell Gallery, north of Boston. The show begins March 1 and runs through April 12th. Opening reception is March 1, 5-7 pm. Wish I could attend!

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays from my studio. 

And Finally The Last of Lotusland and My Humble Garden in Southern California

Lotusland continues to haunt me. I think I would like to show you a few more parting shots. This wonderful scene shows a tree native of Australia, I think it's a Bunya Bunya tree with such wonderful textures, and my favorite type of agaves.

This most interesting group of collections is that of the cycad. It is one of the largest and rarest of collections known. Lotusland is a seed repository and research center as well. Here are some examples of cones of a female plant:

It also has a large collection of dracaena. This dracaena is very old and rare. It's the largest one in their collection--you can get a sense of scale by Jack, a gentleman from Australia, and my aunt, Edeltraude, in our tour group.

And another photo showing the great size of this garden. Again, you can get a sense of the enormity of these magnificent aloes, by our tour group.

You can see the Santa Barbara hillside and again one of my favored plants, the agave, in the background here:

And last but almost least is my humble hillside garden (jungle really, of wild grapes, silver dollar eucalyptus, and scented geraniums) in Southern California:

Yet Again, More on Lotusland

As you can tell, I am smitten with Lotusland, so much so that a few more blog entries will be sharing more garden images. I can't remember what these wonderful wonderful things hanging down from the palms are--is that wonderful texture?

Bamboo is such a wonderful plant. Here are 2 shots of weeping bamboo. I had never seen this species before.

Don't you love the wispy, flowing stems? But it is very invasive as some bamboos, so it won't be gracing my gardens.

And the majestic black bamboo:

And more interesting textures from the succulent & cacti gardens: