New Hooked Wool Drawings

2013 #14, hand dyed wool and egg tempera on linen, 15 x 12 in.

Sometimes I feel that with all the words I've written about my work that I just have no more to say....but there's always something. While working on this new group I was thinking how much I enjoy the newer series of compositions that engage the entire surface of the rectangle.

2013 #15, hand dyed wool and egg tempera on linen, 15 x 15 in.

It's not that I don't like these central images that I've worked with for the past three or four years...

2013 #16, hand dyed wool and egg tempera on linen, 15 x 12 in.

...it's just that the geometries of working the entire surface become very interesting to me, and the pieces have more presence.

2013 #17, hand dyed wool and egg tempera on linen, 15 x 16 1/2 in. 

And yet, there's something appealing about the more modest sized image, floating in a field, as though a bit vulnerable. 

Here are the four new pieces hanging in my work room, seen before I cut the borders down to the proper size. This gives you an idea of their sizes relative to one another. Hanging with them is a print I made from a photograph of a Tantric drawing in the book Tantra Song, which I wrote about here. I love looking at that print; it touches something deep, and it reminds me to try to be calm and peaceful and happy.