Donna-Fay Digance
This is the second piece of fibre art in a series called 'Resurfacing' which depict
glacial erratics with communities of lichens and moss. I pass these glaciated
boulders on my morning walks on Payne
Road on Saturna and am fascinated with their size,
variety of textures and many faceted planes.
In life, we too, resurface and change many times.
I started with many photos at different angles and printed some on Pima
cotton to use as part of my collage.
I painted the sky on cotton, used dyed silk, commercial fabrics, printed
images on cotton, and made confetti fabric by fusing tiny bits on fusible
web.
From these fabrics, I created a
collage with many shapes overlapped and stitched together including a flannel
centre and cotton backing to create a quilt ‘sandwich’. The surface is densely
stitched with many layers of machine and free motion embroidery. This dense
thread ‘painting’ or drawing forms new colours, textures, lines and details.
Finally, I used Lumiere Metallic Paint to add highlights and further
texture.
The artwork is mounted on a custom made, open box frame.
I’m printing a smaller version of this finished image on
Pima Cotton to mat
and frame as prints.
