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Incorporating a new technique and pushing it, creating biomorphic analog forms, yet remaining within the abstract.
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Image created April 19, 2022
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Far and wide, throughout all the realms, were sung the riches of the unconquered South. Many were the souls who coveted them for their own. Many a merchant did set forth upon that road, yet far from all did return. Treacherous are those desert lands, strewn with stones sharp as daggers. And God forbid your wagon breaks down out there! No path back shall remain to thee...
This is my entry for the Pick your poison-category of Summer Joust 2025.
I chose these 3 criteria:
Beaten Track: Horses leave tracks that will soon be covered by sand.
Going Alternative: Cacti and Dead Tree do not use plant parts.
Unstable Load: As a result of a broken wheel, apples and boxes fell out of the wagon.
Geometry and opulence are generally perceived as opposites: While geometry represents rationality, order and reduction, opulence is associated with engrossing lushness, excess and redundancy. However, a look at art history shows that they are definitely intercon-nected, especially when a geometric motif is multiplied in such a way that it takes on ornamental characteristics or becomes a pattern. In a 2012 text (published in the antho-logy Ornament: Motiv – Modus – Bild), art historian Markus Brüderlin notes that the ornamental kept showing up as an important driving force in 20th-century abstract art, the most recent clear expression of which being the “tendency toward the ornamental” seen in the 1980s’ revived abstraction.
Taking nationally and internationally renowned artists as examples, the exhibition Geometric Opulence at Museum Haus Konstruktiv asks: How intertwined are geometry and opulence today? When does something start to be read as opulent? And how is contemporary art addressing these matters? The invited artists assign a special role to playing with multiplication, densification and spatialization strategies for abstract geometric elements. Here, opulence arises via imposing formats, a huge amount of paint, or an accumulation of any kind of material, for instance. Another form of play consists of leaving the two-dimensional image space and taking over real space. Entirely in the interests of opulence, all the artists have been given as much space as possible, so this group exhibition is made up of largely independent solo presentations. What they all have in common is an artistic language that reflects an interest in geometry, structure, variations and systems, as well as mastery of opulence’s prerequisite grand gesture.
Reflections can address light in some ways that you might think casuals, but sometimes they mix light and darkness so that the world can see that they are symbionts one to each other.
now available -
'Freeform Style' by Jonelle Raffino and Prudence Mapstone
ISBN 976-1-60061-138-4
Prudence's website: www.knotjustknitting.com
Prudence's blog: prudencemapstone.blogspot.com
Jonelle's website: www.soysilk.com
Jonelle's blog: soysilk.blogs.com/be_inspired
close up of a section of the freeform knitting and crochet fabric in the wallhanging I created for the gallery wall at the Lion Brand Yarn Studio in New York City
to see more of my freeform creations visit www.knotjustknitting.com
and if you would like to start designing freeform crochet spiral motifs for yourself, check out my 'spectacular spirals' workshop, now available as a PDF tutorial at www.etsy.com/shop/freeformbyprudence