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Emotions, Fabric, Hand sewn, Music, Sound, Synesthesia

“Don’t Stop Me Now, I’m Havin’ a Good Time- Thank you Freddie”

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30’x30’
Silk and linen over silk, cotton cord , metallic and chenille floss and thread

One afternoon while cleaning my studio and listening to lots of Queen, this image fell out of my pen.  This really describes how I feel pretty much most of the time.

“Don’t Stop Me Now”
“Tonight I’m gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive and the world it’s turning inside out Yeah!
I’m floating around in ecstasy
So don’t stop me now don’t stop me
‘Cause I’m having a good time having a good time
By Queen

Emotions, Fabric, Hand sewn, Montclair Art Museum, Music, Sound, Synesthesia

“Reprise of Music in Curved Entrances”

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12″x12″ Silk on linen with hemp, cotton metallic thread and floss

This was created specifically to sell at the Museum Shop of the Montclair Art Museum to go with my piece on display in their New Directions in Fiber Art Show.  And thankfully it sold within five minutes of the shop opening  on the first night of the exhibition.

Fabric, guitar, Hand sewn, Music, Patterns, Sound, Synesthesia

“The Colors of a 12 String Guitar”

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34″x 48″
Silk and cotton on linen with hemp, cotton and metallic thread and floss

This was created after a marathon listen to some of my favorite 12 string guitar players, particularly Leo Kottke. I hope this image conveys the richly layered twangy/tingly funky sound colors I see/hear as a synesthete when I listen to a 12 String.

“The Mind of a 12 String Guitarist”

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8 ½”x 11”
Silk and linen on silk with cotton and metallic thread and floss

After finishing the 12 string Guitar sewy, I knew I needed this as part of the presentation- kind of a modern Diptych.

Emotions, Fabric, Music, Synesthesia

“AMERIQUES” by Edgard Varese

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“Ameriques by Edgard Varese”  34″x40″ sewy based on the work of this French/American composer. His piece “Deserts” was the first avant-garde piece of music I ever fell in love with at age 20 and it changed the trajectory of my musical listening life. “Ameriques” is my synesthetic hand sewn response in silk over linen, with metallic and hemp floss and metallic and cotton thread.

If you want to listen, here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq8SKwi-ycE — in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey.

Fabric, Music, Synesthesia

“So What – Sew What”

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22″x22″  Hand sewn silk on silk with cotton, metallic and chenille floss and thread

This is my emotional/synesthetic response to the Miles Davis favorite, “SO WHAT”.

“Eleta J. Caldwell and Rodney M. Gilbert Memorial Gallery,  So What Curated by Jo-El Lopez
Whether inviting to the eye or to the ear, what is the purpose of art if not to evoke? So What, the opening track of Miles Davis’ — and jazz’s most famous — album, Kind of Blue, dares to answer that question.  While deceptively simplistic in structure, So What’s sophistication lies within the measured ease of its three soloists. In the case of So What: A Visual Interpretation, curator Jo-El Lopez makes a similar statement about what happens when a group of ten visual artists are given the same piece of music to examine and reimagine?  In this exhibition, each artist’s work independently represents a cross section of styles, political platforms, and purpose. And with Lopez’s curatorial approach, as well as Newark’s world-renowned WBGO Jazz 88 Gallery at the helm, the show presents itself as the perfect unification of visual art and interpretation of sound.”

On display October 5th – November 17th, 2018