Cosmic Flora update...

This piece was created a couple of years ago...and its undergone a few changes...mostly on the way to hang it...I finally decided the simplest was the best choice and so now it hangs from an understated string and it is hanging against a wooden wall...

Cosmic Flora-another closeup

Cosmic Flora-Close up

Cosmic Flora-Evolution

I did some changes to this piece. I worked with the idea of the circle and increasing the perception that we are looking into a new world or universe. Part of the piece is covered in fabric and it forces our eyes to tune into the center of the piece...The yellow fabric is also in starch contrast with the highly detailed interior of the pieces...where everything happens...

Organismo-April 2005

Organismo, is a surrealist vision of the invisible within us. Nobody knows how we truly look inside. Each of us unique and different. None of us the same. Organismo, means to go beyond the physical self to represent our spiritual self. White and transparency are employed to further enhance that sense of elevation and spirituality. Other elements such as relief effects and patterns suggesting movement and dimension are used to imply that this Organismo is still very muchin motion and alive...

Tecniques employed: block-printing, stitching, embroidery and beading.

This piece was selected to participate in the annual art exhibit and auction, Celebrating Women shown at the Frasier Museum in Louisville, Kentucky-April 2005.

The Womb-March 2007

The origin of this piece truly began at the core of  my own organism. I felt compelled to express what my body was going through...the most amazing process a woman can go through...conceiving Life or not...

Frida Kahlo was with me throughout this whole creative process. The way she uses her own image and her own experiences as a canvas to express her deepest sorrows and joys. 

Techniques employed in this piece are: block-printing, embroidery, stitching and beading.

Entrail

This piece was included as part of Stitch Spectacular, an annual show that recognizes the exploration of new frontiers in creative hand embroidery.

Entrail-Concept:

This piece is inspired by an imaginative view of a section of the inside of a human body, my body.

Everything connects, vein like threads travel and unite with one another; a swirl of beaded, printed, stitched and embroidered cells interact and overlap. It is a three-dimensional world.

Red tear drop shapes, reminiscent of blood, drip reminding us that it is real flesh. 

It is a micro-cosmos in constant flux. It is also a metaphor for Life itself, we are like tiny cells lost in the myriad relations of a much larger organism.

Cosmic Flora-Evolution

Cosmic Flora...

I finished my piece. I call it schizophrenic art...sometimes it feels like the art of a nut!

It is truly addictive...I have trouble putting a stop to my work at times...but then I feel an imperative need to end everything I start. I love cycles and this piece as all my other ones represents a cycle...a small view of Life...