Art In Progress

This is a look back and behind the curtain of how I made my pieces for Welcome Spruce Grouse.

I started with a painting that a friend gave me from their work, which also happens to be my parents' lawyer's office, because small towns...

The painting was stamped Watertown, NY and the frame had a stamp from Mexico. I have no idea how old it was but when I took it apart and ripped it into strips, it shed paint flakes EVERYWHERE, which I've never had happen when ripping up paintings in the past. I've done a lot of work with paintings I find over the years and weaving them is particularly satisfying.

I then did an assortment of drawings in our gatherings as well as at home which I wove and sewed into the weavings. There's green sparkly fabric I cut to be shaped like the range of the Spruce Grouse and I'd like to do more art inspired by population and range data in the future.

This was a lot of fun to work on outside as well as with folks at the library. Thank you so much to everyone who was a part.