Archaeology 9: Origin
16.5" x 16.5" © 1/2010 CLV
"Tappan Z Gallery"
Tarrytown, NY

After nearly 3 years of zero creativity, I'm making a new series of art quilts called Archaeology. I've designed silk screens, ordered rubber stamps and paints, and cut out stencils. The screens are maps, hand writing, puzzle pieces, mazes, spirals, circuit boards, sailboat blueprints, sheet music, mathematical and chemical equations.

There are two color palettes: the first is ochre with burnt sienna, brown, cream, and black highlights; the second is grayscale.

There are overlapping screens, stamping, and stenciling to make the fabric surface texturally dense. It looks old and weathered, aged and worn. The stitching is very dense, shadowing and obscuring the images.

I view Archaeology 11: Roots as symbolic of my life and my interests. It is my personal cultural lineage. I call the series Archaeology because the viewer has to look carefully between the layers and the obscuring of the quilting to discern what the images are.

The imagery is diverse and layered as life experiences are laid one upon another. As the images are built up on the cloth, changes occur to how the shapes relate to one another. A single image that may represent a moment in time is mutated by the images that are layered upon it.

As life goes on, the past affects the present which influences thoughts of the future. There is an evolution in thinking and a change in what becomes more important over time.

Because it's so small, I'm thinking of framing it up in a black shadow box like Archaeology 1 through 8 are done.

Now they want me to go even bigger! I'll have to get Kinko's involved to blow up my original computer drawing. I'll also have to work out the logistics of printing that large on my kitchen table. I'll have to put in 2 more leaves and print the bottom half and then the top half.

But first I have to find appropriate fabric. Joann's of course is out of the charcoal gray linen with the interesting weave texture.

I'm planning on entering Gray Matters into Art Ability at the Brym Mawr Rehabilition Hospital that specializes in brain injuries. Wish me luck!

I'm also planning on entering Brain Chemistry into Art Ability at the Brym Mawr Rehabilition Hospital that specializes in brain injuries. I have to June 28th to get my entries in.

Archaeology 15: Black Scroll
82"x12" © 5/2010 CLV
"Tappan Z Gallery"
Tarrytown, NY

If you're keeping track of my numbering system for the Archaeology series, you may be wondering were Archaeology 10: Shades of Gray and Archaeology 12: Scroll are. Well, I'm planning on entering them in Quilt National '11 that has strict rules about not publishing the images before the opening of the show. So I'm not jinxing my luck by posting them on my website, blog, or Facebook.

Archaeology 10: Shades of Gray currently hangs over my fireplace and is my favorite piece to date with Brain Chemistry being a close second.

Archaeology 12: Scroll is similar to White Scroll, only much whiter (no dark gray images) and much bigger at 120"h x 12"w. I still have to work out how to make the scrolling occur. Peter's got some ideas using dowels and I'm thinking of using fabric strips that I could tie. I made these two new ones so I could experiment with the various methods without working on my QN "11 entry until I'm sure of what I'm doing.

Both White Scroll and Black Scroll are at the "Tappan Z Gallery", Tarrytown, NY

Archaeology 16: White Scroll
63.5"x11" © 5/2010 CLV
"Tappan Z Gallery"
Tarrytown, NY

Archaeology 17: Black Sheath
84"x12" © 6/2010 CLV

Archaeology 18: White Sheath
84"x12" © 6/2010 CLV
Arch 17-22 are also entered into Art Ability

Archaeology 21: Black Strip
36"x8.5" © 6/2010 CLV

Archaeology 21: White Strip
35"x8.5" © 6/2010 CLV

Archaeology 13: Time
11.5"x11.5" © 2/2010 CLV

is my entry into the SAQA Auction.
Follow the link to the YouTube video where
I talk about this piece. YouTube video

Botswana Courtyard at Dawn - 23.5"h x 31"w © 7/2010 CLV
Acrylic, cotton, silk flowers. Painted, silk screened, stenciled, sponged, free motion quilted.
Made for the 2010 Botswanacraft Gallery Exhibition in Gaborone, Botswana, Africa in October

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