{"id":1964,"date":"2017-01-25T14:48:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T14:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2017-01-25T14:48:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T14:48:20","slug":"addressing-redressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=1964","title":{"rendered":"Addressing, Redressing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Composed. Meaning that I’ve put all the elements together for my latest work in progress, and the composition is complete. Brother — or should I say, Bernina, did I have a time quilting those bubbled, melted woven plastic pieces, which was a bag\u00a0of beet pulp for horse feed (thank you Ms.\u00a0Vola). See my last post, Bubble, Bubble, Melt & Muddle<\/a>. Went through a lot of needles, needless to say. Packaging from other used products–coffee bags (thank you Emmetts and local coffee shop), tea bag envelopes (thank you Carl, Barb, Lesley,\u00a0and Liz), \u00a0and foil enclosures for items like smoked salmon and Alka Seltzer tablets, constitute\u00a0the rest of the surface.\u00a0Oh, and I threw in some plastic mesh citrus bags.<\/p>\n

Yep, this is part of my ReUse series, made from my\u00a0stash of trash. A green quilt, to be sure. The text riffs on the word Reuse, as in recycle. Ref<\/em>-use, meaning garbage. And Re: Use, referring to our use of dwindling resources.\u00a0Maybe even Refuse — to be a user, a conspicuous consumer.<\/p>\n

So here I am. Piece needs some work in straightening and finishing the edges.<\/p>\n

Considering crossing some of those fuchsia dashes. More is more??<\/p>\n

Nuh-uh. What this piece REALLY needs is what my sewing studio needs: some serious decluttering.<\/p>\n

See,\u00a0I’m not showing off. Or fishing for compliments. Quite the contrary, I’m\u00a0at a hypercritical stage, and fairly desperate\u00a0for ideas and\u00a0direction.<\/p>\n

Let me interject here\u00a0that this piece answers a call for entering 32″ x 48″ textile posters\u00a0from Studio Art Quilters Association (SAQA). So, much as I’d like to severely crop it–which would be in service to the art, that would be a big capitulation of this opportunity for exposure.<\/p>\n

Trial by computer:\u00a0I translate the image to\u00a0black and white, to view the contrasts and overall composition in a simplified way. I also added a border, to represent a binding all around:<\/p>\n

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Which tells me that there is just too much variance of contrast–too much piecing, making it jumpy and jarring.<\/p>\n

I’ve decided to use paint to reduce the patterning. Excited about using\u00a0a brayer to capitalize on the bubbled and quilted textures, for an effect resembling crackling. With hopes that the paint doesn’t crack off or flake…Will I need a primer? A sealant? I’m thinking of a whitewashing effect. Not necessarily white, but swathes of a single shaded color to blend areas of\u00a0random piecing. [Note to self: Next time, keep crazy quilt patchwork to blocks, to contain and restrain the craziness. And make me less crazy.]<\/p>\n

I’m\u00a0no wiz at photo-editing to preview how this might look, but I have an “add flash”\u00a0feature to show how lightening the whole thing might look, and I’ve added a light green border to stand in for binding:<\/p>\n

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Better, I think. Paint will also cover up any exposed\u00a0brand names or logos\u00a0of companies whose legal departments have nothing better to do than threaten artists and exhibitors.<\/p>\n

The good news is, with this shiny, plasticized surface, I can easily sponge off newly-applied paint that doesn’t\u00a0do it for me.<\/p>\n

Friends, when I say I welcome comments, that is an understatement. Very grateful to get your artistic perspective. What do you think I should do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Composed. Meaning that I’ve put all the elements together for my latest work in progress, and the composition is complete. Brother — or should I say, Bernina, did I have a time quilting those bubbled, melted woven plastic pieces, which was a bag\u00a0of beet pulp for horse feed (thank you Ms.\u00a0Vola). See my last post, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,4,22,12,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-quilt","category-color","category-exhibitions","category-personally-speaking","category-recycled-art","category-surface-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Ej5z-vG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}