On your side

The tattoo on his arm says, "I'm on board."

Her calves/boots say:

"I'm on your side.

I'm all in."

Excuse my lapse into colloquialism.

Together, they say, "I'm on your side."

Flowering into an abundance of love

His body says, "Growing into us, into each other, and a love that feels like home forever."

Her body says, "Flowering into an abundance of love."

Now that this piece is finished, it looks to me like a wedding piece. This may be because several close friends and family members are either engaged and planning weddings, or planning engagements. Regardless, I hope it conveys the kind of hopeful affection I'm looking for.

Suture

Brooklyn Love Exchange a la the BKBuzz

My many thanks to Shannon Geis of The BK Buzz for creating a podcast about my recent exhibit and Brooklyn Arts Council-funded project, The Brooklyn Love Exchange. Visit this link to look and listen.

Occupy me

Aerial View, Cloud City: FiberGraf and the Brooklyn Love Exchange at Muriel Guepin Gallery

Today is the last day to see The Brooklyn Love Exchange and FiberGraf at Muriel Guepin Gallery.

The piece shown here, "Aerial View: Cloud City," involves multiple steps and processes. My FiberGraf collaborator, Jon Baker, and I each worked on it for several months. I started by painting the fabric a medium blue-purple using permanent fabric paint. I deliberately left some of the fabric bare. Jon began drawing on it with fabric markers, and kept going...In between his drawing sessions, I added in French knots, which are denser in some areas than others. I started with embroidery thread that matched the medium dark purple in the background. Later, as I ran out of thread, I started to use my fabric paint to dye grey and light greyish-green thread to match some of the lighter and darker areas of the ground.

We are planning more pieces of this nature, where we mix media and techniques, and work simultaneously and alternately on the same piece.

My final Brooklyn Love Exchange piece

An homage to some friends in Sunset Park. This is how they met.