Color you can feel

A new year and new resolution…although I finished my commissioned piece and mailed it off between Christmas and New Year’s, I’m putting it up as a beginning for 2011. A commission, which in this case, had only a size requirement – everything else was up to me – is always a little scary. Until it lands in the hands of the commissioning one and has been not only approved, but with enthusiasm, there’s some nervousness. Will it be the right thing for the person who wants it and is it good enough are the main questions. In this case, my client was a woman who has lived most of her life in Oregon, among tall trees. She has also been pursuing genealogy many years. In hopes of bringing both these things into my art, I made the above piece and titled it “Generations”. I made the tree trunks from twisted yarns and ribbons, which I couched down. Texture, texture, texture! Yay! Beading is always a happy activity for me – as I bead, I get into a kind of Zen state. I love having some work at the point of being ready to bead.

Generations, for Merrill