Sugar Skull

I painted this skull on my bathroom wall with mis-tints from a local paint store. I didn't get to choose the colors, but I got about 7 containers of paint for $11, so I'm not complaining.

South Central Los Angeles

Graffiti Wall Photos

Model: Hinda Asindraza
Site: South Central Los Angeles

Old Tights into a Sculpture

By the end of winter this year I had a lot of well worn, ratty looking tights. My desire to recycle these well loved clothing items into an art project yielded the above sculpture. I would love to do this on a really large scale- cover the walls and ceiling of a room, for example.

Sculpture: Fabric and Light

This piece, titled Weave, is about 4' wide by 5'. It is a simple weave of strips of fabric of varying textures and patterns such as black lace, yellow block printed cotton, floral upholstery fabric, and magenta netting. All fabric is from a box of scraps and left overs I have accumulated over a semester of sewing projects. I am particularly fond of the tension created by the sterile blue of the LED lights and the warm domesticity of the fabrics I chose.


Nan is meant to hang from the ceiling so that the bottom of the piece hangs at about knee height. When installed properly (and not the hallway of my house in Providence) is becomes figurative- it is about the size of a large person and feels almost like a ghost floating in the room. I have incorporated cut out appliques, spray paint stencils, acrylic painting, and various sewing techniques to achieve a highly decorative effect. I was particularly careful to think about how light from within the sculpture affects the installation space. Both the amoeba-shaped light pattern on the floor and the leaf-shaped light patches shining through the black lace cut outs are essential elements of the sculpture. The slight draft created by a person walking past the sculpture is also an important element in that it changes the form of the light reflections on the floor and the walls.

Scrap Quilt

This is one of two quilts I created from recycled clothes. All the patches in the center are from cut up skirts or blouses. There are several swatches I got from Liberty when I was in London. This shot shows the quilt in the grass at my favorite farm back home- Tulmeadow. The natural 7pm summer light gave me the best picture I have gotten yet.

Paintings

These are some of the paintings I did for my painting class last fall. As the semester progressed I moved on to more sculptural projects, so these paintings represent the first half of the fall semester. I still have a lot to learn about photographing my artwork and the colors are really all wrong, even after some doctoring in Photoshop. But it is at least a sense of what I was painting. Love the Providence architecture!