Swing, 2009, hand-dyed wool on linen, 20 x 10 inchesIt's done. I like the almost-candy-colored relationships, the forms resting edge to edge. Another thing I find enlivening about the ruglets is the irregularity of edge caused by the hooking process, a straying from the perfection of geometry, so different from the crispness of my paintings.
Ah! I love the colors of this one. That pinky brown by itself gives me the willies, but it's so good with these goldy greens and ochres. I saw this combo in a stained glass window in Island Pond years ago & it struck me (was singing in a chorus, lots of time to look at it). What do they make you think of?
ReplyDeleteHow surprising to hear that these colors would be in a stained glass window; they seem too soft for that. I don't have any color memories or metaphors for this one; I just loved the scraps of wool in my big pile that had similar colors. (though there is something a bit fleshy in that pink, the almost-but-not-quite-candy color)
ReplyDeleteSome colors are just no problem, and a few -- probably because I disliked the flat plastic color of bandaids -- pinky browns just set my teeth a little on edge, but that made me really look for it and look for places where it looked good. And I can't tell you what that window was a picture of, but lots of the background was soft pastels, warm. It was Victorian style, not medieval primaries. Have you ever been into St. Michael's Church on 99th and Amsterdam? Some of the windows and the chapel mosaic reredos were done by Tiffany, with the most amazing pearly iridescent palette. You should see it.
ReplyDeleteThat's kind of funny, about the bandaid, Susan, and the pink is close to that color.
ReplyDeleteThe church sounds lovely; I'll keep it in mind for next time I'm in the city, uptown.
that form still looks like a big fat Guston thumb - I don't know what the pink is but I like it.
ReplyDeleteThe pink could be the soft pink of organic free range farm eggs. I also can see this as an arial view of cultivated farm lands. I especially like the slightly curved long side edges-- adds to the organic feel of this beautiful ruglet. I love it.
ReplyDeletea bandaid coming towards a thumb, perhaps, rappel? glad you like it.
ReplyDeleteinteresting you see an aerial view of agricultural fields, Julia. This work wasn't inspired by that, but I did a couple of other ruglets made from sketches of crop circles done during a cross country flight.
All the molecules align, arrange.
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