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My personally set challenge right now is to work bigger. Easier said than done! Scaling up doesn't necessarily mean making things bigger but i find myself grabbing pieces and not wondering how to make a rusty piece smaller, or a pod miniscule, so *something* must be working :} 

I like little details. I love spending an hour on a small area so that the viewer has to look in. If i don't want to make myself crazy (er), i can't lavish that time on a lot of handwork. NOT that i am NOT using small textural details: they just have to be a bit more apparent, less fussy and less "in", if that makes sense. I'm trying to let the materials do that talking, not adding myriad fine stitches or beads. 

This still isn't the big size i had envisioned in my dreams, but it's getting there. This canvas is 16 x 20", and i'm thinking of extending the idea by doing others that will butt up against it. Really what i want to do is stretch my arms to reach side to side!!!!!!!!!!

 

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Mixed media included the canvas with gesso, pods, rusty bits, metal bars, embroidery floss, plastic bug, gold faux mica flakes, grommets, eyelets, acrylic paint, Xpanda, clear coarse glitter flakes, mesh, an unfinished textile UFO (centre) with painted cheesecloth and rusted lutrador, and 9 hours of totally focused arlee!!!!!

I have no idea what to title this one though!!! 

Update on Wed, June 25, 2008 at 06:15PM by arlee

Thank you all for the title suggestions! I had an email from a friend who suggested something that tied in with some of the ideas you had and the way the piece came about. So now it's officially "She Dreams Out".

Comments

[Margaret]

"UFO exposed"
Cool piece, Arlee!

[Sequana]

"Enter If You Dare"

[Rebecca]

I LOVE this !

[Sarah E.]

No idea what to call it, Arlee, but as always you have done super-dooper! Thanks so much for sharing your processes with us. Bestest regards!

[carol t]

I say Breaking through. Lovely, asalways the strength of colour is stunning.

[Mary Anne]

'Internal Vision' or 'The Vision Within'. I don't know about a title, but I do know I'm impressed. If this is Arlee coming out of an artistic slump, I can't wait to have one!!
A corpse couldn't be creeping into this too, could it? You did say doing others that will butt up against it?

[sue b]

Arlee this is pretty fabulous!

[Midge]

Loving it and found myself wanting much much more of that very intriguing opening bit in the centre-ish, That is pure magic, mystical intrigue and so unblocked.

[Nellie Durand]

Intriguing! Looks like a dreamscape to me.

[Jackie]

I've just got back from a Gustav Klimt Exhibition in Liverpool,and i was struck by the very large canvases but with small ares of intense detail,so you are in good compnay. Then we went to Crosby to see 'Another Place' by Anthony Gormley. Talk about rust and barnacles...(http://www.sefton.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=6216