PATTERNS AND TONES

It's August and that means it's time for a woven image series! This year I decided to create portraits of produce instead of people. In 2015 I featured Authors in August  and in 2016 I concentrated on Angles in August . According to Specialty Produce , "the Red Delicious apple was discovered as a chance seedling in 1872 on the Iowa farm of Jesse Hiatt. He marketed it under the name Hawkeye and eventually sold the rights to a fruit company known as Stark Brothers. The apple was first renamed Delicious and later on when Stark Brothers discovered another apple and named it Golden Delicious they renamed the Delicious, Red Delicious.  The Red Delicious apple saw tremendous commercial success between 1940 till the late 1980’s, with the bulk of the supply coming out of Washington State. Its popularity has declined slightly the past twenty years as consumer interest has swayed to new varieties as well as towards a renewed interest in heirloom apples." Julie Green Au...

"Kite Flyer No. 1" 2016 On my way home from Hong Kong earlier this year, I had time to sit and ponder several projects I have been working on over the year. My exploration on light and how we perceive it, as seen in my pieces on Water Refractions  and my Sun Shadow series , as well as distortion in perspective, as seen in my woven portrait  series, are subjects that have captivated me this year. Bending light and perspective floats my boat. I then began wondering if I could move a single frozen moment in time by cutting the image up. As I slept on the 15 hour flight home, I had a vivid dream of my daughter running with a kite, its tail lingering behind her. I remember looking at the image of my daughter in the same way as Marcel Duchamp 's famous painting "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" 1912 , with its depiction of rhythm and movement all on one plane. Except in my dream, I worked from a single moment and it was my goal to try to make, as Duchamp s...

4th of July in Bungay,  2016 I look at my daughter constantly. She is my visual nectar and my thirst to observer and take in her essence is never satiated. As a photographer I have taken many, many photographs of her likeness but none have capture the details up close in quite the same way. There is an intimacy that is lost in a single portrait. So I decided to construct an image I felt emphasized and exaggerated each detail I lingered on. By employing my weaving technique, I started with a portrait I recently took of her on the 4th of July.  This year, we found ourselves visiting a friend in Bungay,  a market town in the English countryside of Suffolk.  There were no celebrations of course and her lovely  red, white and blue dress, with its stars and stripes, did not register with the local townsfolk.  Spending any holiday abroad feels different. But spending  a very American holiday in  the United ...