February 2016

Bagdad Nights

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Baghdad Nights is a hand loom weaving that I started almost a decade ago but put aside because I couldn’t figure out how to finish or display it. The concept was there but I couldn’t find what pulled it together. This winter, when I rediscovered the unfinished piece, I connected with the sadness of how the situation in the Middle East has changed so little from when I first started.  It seemed appropriate to me to finish it as a wall hanging, suspended on a surplus scrap of steel rebar. Acrylic and cotton yarn, steel rebar, fishing line. 25” x 31 ½”. $300.00

 

 

The Pool of Narcissus

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In Greek mythology Narcissus was a young man who became so enamored of his own image reflected in a pool that he lost interest in everything else, and died looking at himself. The Pool of Narcissus is a found object/recycled material sculpture. Narcissus is a broken wheel, the pool is a scrap of cherry wood, and the reflection is cut from a broken mirror. If you choose, and look carefully, you can see a reflection in the pool. 7 ¼” x 3 ¼’ x 5 ¼’ $275.00