It's Summer!
Make sure to try to stop by the Craft Council on Broadway in Saskatoon and see the Dimensions show. It runs until July 29th. I have a piece in it called "Context is Everything".
This time
in history is characterized by making split second decisions on everything from
people to products. With the swipe of a finger, we can dismiss something as
unwanted. The Goat’s Beard weed is beautiful, symmetrical and delicate; we
dismiss it as a weed. If we did not know it was a weed, would we think it is
beautiful and cherish it? Context is Everything. If we didn’t have so many
societal influences would we accept everyone for who they are rather than make
decisions influenced by society?
Plants become weeds when they obstruct our plans, or our
tidy maps of the world. A weed is “a plant in the wrong place.” Richard Mabey
Technique:
Seeds glued to paper
Materials:
Goat’s Beard seeds, glue, BFK paper
photo credits - Grant Kernan
The piece is constructed using a Goat's Beard Dandelion.
I used the seeds in a Fibonacci sequence pattern to create a complex pattern.