Layers
I completed my first layered piece today.
Of course it’s not really my first layered piece; I’ve been layering and mixing and blending forever.
But there is something different about this piece.
There’s something different about where I think this work is headed.
This piece is called “Secrets”. I have lots of secrets. I have secrets I don’t even know about. They keep revealing themselves to me.
Life is one layer after another. From one moment to the next, a new secret is revealed. I remember so vivdly, when I was very young, playing in front of Anne Carpenter’s house, right at and around that HUGE Magnolia tree, and stepping with a bare foot on a magnolia leaf that was hiding a big fat bubble bee, who had become totally entranced with the fallen flower under that leaf. My tiny bare foot was just enough to startle him from his dizzy pleasure, and he stung the living wee out of me. Not exactly poetry revealed, but a lesson that I have never forgotten.
Filed under: change, creative process, growth, layers, life in italics, thoughts on July 2nd, 2008
This speaks!
I had to enlarge the image so I could get up close. This is so very good V. How, oh how did you make those ‘ropes’ of millfiori?
I loooooove this piece! It makes me think of a secret garden under the sea. I have been playing with the secret theme in my art for well over a year now and I must say the ideas just keep coming.
Thank you all! Janet, thanks also for your comment on the Flcikr site… I really appreciate it! I’m glad to know that the piece is communicating a message to its viewers. As for my rope method, herhimnbryn, a girl has to have some secrets, don’t you think? It’s not rocket science, but it has created enough of a stir over the years, that I’ve decided to keep it to myself! I think this piece was the first to use the rope. It’s been a while since I’ve employed the technique, but it really works well with this concept, in my opinion. And, Robyn, I can see all sorts of secrets in your work. In fact, I can imagine how wonderful it is each time a figure or object appears from the wood as you carve - talk about revealing secrets!
Ok, understood:)