The show is up

The show is now installed at Crafts Council Of BC and opens Thursday evening June 18.
There are some interesting aspects of the installation: for example I am including a ball of spun "off cuts" that was created using all the threads cut from the Excursions while they were being made.

I will upload photos of the opening.

Excursion # 11

June 1,
I am posting one of my favourite excursions, #11. Although the cloth became quite pulled (see note) during the making of this one I enjoyed creating the spatial depth between the smaller floating forms and the larger one. I loved evolving the very pale colours surrounding the forms.
(In the embroidery process the cloth can become quite deformed as it pulls with the intensity of the layering of the thread.)

May 30th, I am posting one detail for you so you can see thread textures. This is from Excursion # 9/2. There are 22 Excursions in total.

New thoughts on the series Small Excursions

May 30th, 2009
As I complete the Small Excursions and review them to begin preparing for the show I realize that one of my goals for these embroideries is that the movements of thread texture, form and colour entertain you, the viewer as they entertain me. The forms move and fade and intensify although static they compel the imagination to travel or “excursion” with them as they interface with each other. Negative spaces are significant contributors in the journey.