Inspiration can come from anywhere as we all know, I found a little this morning in the pics posted on Facebook by Sarah Ross-Thompson, a Fine Art Printmaker, specialising in colourful landscape collagraphs. She modestly says, “oh I would never claim to be a photographer. Just a point and press on the iPad.”
I have many scraps of nunofelt made years ago, mostly used for doll costumes and seeing Sarah’s snaps inspired me to stitch and embellish some of them. Just getting started.
The Oil quilt consists of four panels made up of about 80 squares of 20 x 20 cm, printed, painted, drawn, embellished, stitched and embroidered in various ways. I’m finding it hard to finish, the desire to add more detail is strong but almost certainly misguided. Better to work on another piece I think.
This detail is from the upper left of the second panel, it feels topical. The quilt as a whole seems to be a polemic.
This second detail is from same panel, lower right.
This is an article by Michael Welton, mainly about a gallery show in Ottowa, Anthropocene. But it also looks at earlier work by Burtynsky, et al. I just came across this trailer for the recently released film, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch.
image by Edward Burtynsky
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