Creepy Dolls

This is a project that I have been thinking about for a very long time. I found these pictures of creepy dolls in a doll magazine that I got at the Palmer Library. I find these dolls very creepy. I've been wanting to deal with the things that scare me in my art, I think that is a very loaded topic. The other main topic that I've been dealing with has been protection so in a way these are the things that I need to protect myself from.

This close up shot, shows the stitching.

This close up shot is to show that both of these guys are stuffed. The technique is called Tripunto it is 3-d applique.

The las two weeks

Love and Sex I


This is one of the pieces that I completed last week its made out of layers of fabric. I cut triangles in to the top layer of fabric so that one could see the layer behind it. Around the triangles, I sewed my own hair that I have been collecting out of my hair brush for a couple years now. This piece of artwork is supposed to have sexual connotations. The vulva like shapes almost seem to double as hearts.

Detail of the hair in Love and Sex I

Love and Sex II

This is the sister piece to the other. I took the triangle pieces which I had cut off of the other, and appliqued them on to the layered fabric. I notice that in painting, one can paint only one painting, but in the fiber arts medium, one must create a multiple of pieces.

Devotional clothes

This is one of the new pieces which I finished before Christmas. I call them devotional clothes because, I have written prayers out on the fabric and then stitched around the words. This one here is quilted and backed with burlap.



This is a close up of some of the stitching.

I got the idea for these pieces from these great African vests that I saw. The vests were padded in order to provide the wearer from a certian amount of physical danger. At the same time though they had passages from the Koran hand written onto the fabric. These passages were to also keep the wearer from being hurt. I thought that was a facinating idea so I created these pieces with that same idea in mind.

Burn Blankets

I know that I just posted yesterday, I promise that I'm not any everyday poster. I just had some time today while I was in the office and that I might post some of my old work. This work is very similar to some of the work that I'm doing currently. Fun Fact: All of these pieces were done while I watched documentaries about Egypt on the discovery channel. The Burn Blankets/Clothes as I call them are now part of the Sean Aube collection. I got the idea to create them after seeing these pieces of art work done by a women who first allowed fruit to rot on fabric and then she quilted around the areas that the rotting fruit had colored. I cannot think of her name but will try to have it in my next post with her web address if possible. I will also post some pictures of my new work on tuesday, the pictures I took did not come out but I will try to take some again. I would love to hear what you all think about them, so feel free to comment.

Here they all are hanging together, not a very good picture but it was hard with the sun shining in. These are all part of the show that I will soon be proposing to several galleries.

In all there are five of these in various sizes. They are in the Sean Aube collection.

Close up image of the large one, so you can see all the stitching.

This is the smallest and I think it is about 7" by 18".



The one above is by far the largest, I think that it is funny that it does not look as large in the photo.

I made all of these this fall before I had my Stitched together show.

My New Job

So I started my new job on Monday...I'm now an artist. For those of you who don't know I just graduated in December, that is if the college decides not to screw me, I still have yet to get my diploma. I figured since I graduated that I might as well make the attempt to do what I was trained to do. The ability to do what I want to do, is great, but I miss school. I'm also going to have to figure some way of getting out of the house or I'm going to go stir crazy. I also have a piece hanging in the Internation Gallery of Contemporary Art,(IGCA) in Anchorage, not my own show, but the members show. Just thought all my fans out there would want to know. Side note: My spelling and grammer is horendus, so please try to see past that.