Robin Atk
Release ~ BJP for August, 2010
My six words for August's BJP piece are Release, Listen, Talk, Shift, Risk, Commit. The size is 7 inches square, not including the black border. The materials include: decorative paper, wool felt, beads, thread and found objects.
Like all of my recent pieces, this one is also about some personal changes I'm making in my life. The words are a few of my guides in the process of change.
I worked this piece on resist-dyed felt, which I made in a class taught by Chad Alice Hagen. I repurposed a lens from a pair of my old prescription glasses and used it to "magnify" the embroidered words. The rock is a piece of slate from recently constructed steps on the trail to my studio. The twig is from one of our Madrona trees. The butterfly represents transition or change.... a serendipitous dye pattern that I enhanced to look like a butterfly.
Release ~ BJP for August, 2010
My six words for August's BJP piece are Release, Listen, Talk, Shift, Risk, Commit. The size is 7 inches square, not including the black border. The materials include: decorative paper, wool felt, beads, thread and found objects.
Like all of my recent pieces, this one is also about some personal changes I'm making in my life. The words are a few of my guides in the process of change.
I worked this piece on resist-dyed felt, which I made in a class taught by Chad Alice Hagen. I repurposed a lens from a pair of my old prescription glasses and used it to "magnify" the embroidered words. The rock is a piece of slate from recently constructed steps on the trail to my studio. The twig is from one of our Madrona trees. The butterfly represents transition or change.... a serendipitous dye pattern that I enhanced to look like a butterfly.