Daffodils are some of my favorite flowers and I covet their arrival!
I’ve been doing lots of sketching and planning in the studio. Appropriately, I’ve been working on this pair of daffodils I’m affectionately referring to as Multichrome and Monochrome. They are part of a series about flowers and myth.
I’ve had this mirrored vinyl for years; waiting for it to tell me what it should become. It has some fascinating patina/degradation. The daffodil on the left, Multichrome, is made of varying colors of silver and gold lame. It also has multi colored rivets. It reminds me of the very jazzy 80s mixed metals and I’m tickled at this connection.
As I’m finishing up this piece about Narcissus*, I’m planning for my next flowers: violets and iris.
I’m also finally getting around to archiving some of my pigment collections and here’s a scan of what I found in West Texas/Terlingua area last December. Now this is some beautiful earth.
Book of Earth by Heidi Gustafson. I’ve followed her work for years and have had this on my list since before it came out. Now that I’m in the middle of it, I’m enjoying it even more than I anticipated. Part natural science, indigenous wisdom, creative practice, and all earth. Written for the curious.
Our local community art gallery, The Redbud, is having a show hosted by Preston Art Center. I’m excited to be included. The opening is March 28 from 3-5pm and the show will be up through the end of April.
This summer, I’ll also have some work in a show, Human Nature, at Louisville Visual Art. I’m finally using my catalog of plant dye samples from my time as an Artist in Residence at Bernheim Forest. Stay tuned!
*From Wikipedia:
According to the best-known version of the story in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Narcissus rejected the advances of all women and men who approached him, instead falling in love with his own reflection in a pool of water.[1] In some versions, he beat his breast purple in agony at being kept apart from this reflected love, and according to Ovid turned into a flower bearing his name.
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