catalysts

My friend Jeanne Simpson has proposed a challenge for 2012. The idea is to create a piece that is 20" x 12" each week for a year. Each week has a theme. This week her theme is fractals which reminded me of an idea I had for this wonderful piece of fabric that Pat Pauly gave me a while back. This beautiful dyed piece looks like a series of moons each with a cloudy smearing that appeals to my imperfections. Phases of the moon can have such power (witness ocean waves), especially the full moon. So I look at it as a catalyst for ideas. Here, then, is Catalysts, a fractally motivated composition.

Catalysts, ©2012, Paula Kovarik

 

mending kit

The outside/inside the box exhibit, part of Fiber Philadelphia in March, gave away mending kits at the door. It seemed an interesting metaphor for all the pieces that had to do with human tragedy. So I took one home with me and used the thread and pieces within to create this linen napkin study. Its a gathering of thoughts, or a swirling of ideas. Just how I felt while visiting the galleries there.

©2012, Paula Kovarik. Mending kit.

heart centered

finally started the piece that has been pestering me in my head for a number of months. It will be a challenge because I am working on a 5 foot linen table cloth that bows and bends with the wind. May need extra tethers to tame it. And in my haste I started it without my trusty bamboo iron on batting so the billows are billowy. More hand basting necessary. But I'm not too worried, the hand basting may stay in because of the concept.

Stay tuned.

©2012, Paula Kovarik

in the mood

Found these two broad-headed skinks in the compost area today. Wikipedia says that the males of this species get red heads during mating season.

Enough said.

Paula Kovarik, 2012

green

This Spring has been so full, so resplendent with growth it brings joy to my eyes. I want to wrap myself up in it. When I visited Longwoood Gardens earlier this month I found this luscious hallway to the bathrooms in the conservatory. This is how I feel today, my skin sprouting green.

Paula Kovarik, 2012