Wearables

"Leona"

This is a hand made, unstructured, drop sleeve jacket using 100% rayon chalis that has been hand dyed and over dyed using MX reactive dyes, painted with leaves using pro-chem textile paints and stitched with hand dyed silk noil squares.

Of all the wearable art pieces I have made so far, this is perhaps my favorite. It amazes me that I have continued to be inspired by plant life for decades. And of couse, the image of a square in my work has been around for almost as long. At one time I worried that this was a clear sign of being visually stuck. However, it seems that as I get older, I worry less about the things I can't seem to explain and trust in the process more. I have discovered that entrenching myself in a new medium, has helped enormously in pushing my tried and true boundaries beyond any confort level I may have been working in.