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The fairy tale of the 3 cocoons

Well... there is no written fairy tale yet... I'm thinking about it but I don't come to an end.

I wanted just to show the pictures because there are so many I can't show now and I love to share my art.

This piece is made with material from Gabi Tisch in Germany who dyes the most beautiful fabrics, silk,threads, etc. She wanted me to use a package she is preparing for the workshop I'm going to have at her Atelier Tisch on the 1st. of May 2008.

I enjoyed using these wonderful materials, they have so much light and color!! it is because of the silk.

Leave your skin behind

I continue working with this theme because there are so many things I'm thinking about at this moment.

Do you have old skins you want to leave behind?

This insect I was thinking about eats pomegranates... they are red and rich in taste...he likes them. They carry the poison that's going to kill him...and us too...and everything comes back to the environment, green life, simplicity...

I like riddles.

Cocoons

We are all cocoons hanging in an open cage.

We are working on ourselves all the time and can leave the cage when we thing we're finished.

The most lovely cocoon I know is the one of the "bicho canasto" Oiketicus kirbyi and the butterfly that comes out of it is ugly and considered a "plague"...

I like to meditate on this when I sit on my coffee shop and look at these cages. I love these riddles that have a different outcomes depending on the person who's engaged on the thinking...

The cages are not going to stay on the window sill though. They are part of an installation of 10 cages I'm going to hang from a branch when I finish them.

The cocoons are made of false ivory (a Fimo thing), Polyfilling, scrim/cheesecloth and self made paper. The cages out of wire and vines.

More inkings...

I'm making more pieces with Inca inspired motives.

I like their imagination and the disposition of the pictures on the fabric.

They are wonderful to take as teachers for a while. I'm learning very much with their help. This let me study their civilization at the same time and it is really interesting that they began with all this at a b.C. time!!

It is also interesting that the fabrics could be conserved for so many years due to the dry climate.

Something is also happening with my use of colors. I got a hang to use some kind of rusty ones with pastel ones... it is an odd combination but I love the result. It sizzles!

Weekend class

This weekend I had a workshop and I did this small piece during the class to show some techniques with the embellisher.

I also used resin for framing the face.

Chasuble

Yesterday was the birthday of our priest in Mank and the community gave him a chasuble made by me as a gift.

Now I can show you the photographs at last!

I could decide about the design and I was very happy about it.