Sunday, February 12, 2012

Abstraction from "leftovers"


Since I generally work from three altered files for my landscapes, I end up with a lot of leftover pieces of paper. Making abstract collages out of them allows me to work strictly with color and composition. I really love quilts, so this feels a bit like making an art quilt without having to fight with the sewing machine! After I'd finished the first one, I was showing a friend how it looked sitting on one side of the cradled panel, then rotated the square to see the next side, then -- he stopped me and said he liked it at the "half turn" so that it was a diamond shape. Oh YES - much more dynamic!!

Both of these are made with strips leftover from collages of landscapes of Montana, Wyoming, Illinois and Arizona...so the top one is "States of Mind" and the bottom one is "Altered States."
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  1. Penny Schine GoldFebruary 12, 2012 at 9:33 PM

    I think I feel about glue the way you do about the sewing machine:-) Yes, "quilt" came to my mind as soon as I saw this image! In quilting, we call this orientation of a block "on point."

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  2. BarbaraFebruary 16, 2012 at 11:26 AM

    These are striking, Lori. (My "Straddle the Turtle" paintings and ceramic tiles are so much more dynamic when they are on point like this. What is it about that diamond shape?!)

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