Facing Change
Many of you may identify with New Mexico polymer artist Barb Fajardo as she talks about facing what’s next with her art. While the prospect of travel and teaching offer exciting possibilities, those changes also include some fear and sadness.
If you’ve watched your nest empty and your studio grow, you’ll understand the sometimes conflicting feelings that change brings with it.
Mixing media
Being a polymer purist I rarely publish work, no matter how exciting, that looks like polymer but turns out to be something else. Here are two great examples that are too luscious to pass up and that I can share with you.
Jillian Palone works in paper clay in an organic way that you’ll immediately recognize. Look at those bracelets!
Jillian Moore mixes lots of media, including polymer and lately she’s gravitated back to it. I love the in-process shots of her lastest series of brooches. She finishes them off by suspending them and coating them with a layer of resin that drips like a runny nose. Don’t you want wear one just to get a reaction?
Advanced Style
In this trailer for an upcoming documentary on older women and fashion, one flamboyant woman says, “I am dressed up for the theater of my life every day.” Another admits she’s, “…hungry for color.”
The exhuberance of these women was a pleasure to watch. They use themselves as canvases for their art.
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Fascinating, isn’t it, how we (or I, anyway) can look at someone’s art, like Barb’s and get this idea of what a person is like… I would have thought she’d be the kind of person who would be totally out there, boldly in the center. Tee hee. She’s more like me.
And Palone’s work…that’s paper clay??? Impressive. It’s come a long way. Some of her work looks like it could play on the wall as Jeff Dever’s little cousins.
Kit – Yes, each artist has shared her vulnerabilities which is helpful to all of us….we’re more similar than we think.