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| Mimi (L) Keep Steady-Fabric,newsprint,thread on vellum. Bibi (R) Walking Away From Feeling Small-Photo, pencil. |
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| Mimi Keep Steady, detail |
Mimi: Keep Steady
I went to work as usual on
the new date, but had forgotten we had set a new time. I was not able to
work, and I felt stymied and stifled. I left the studio to call Bibi to
tell her nothing was coming to me. She reminded me we had set a new time
and to try again later. I went back to work at the correct time and
immediately knew what to do. I was thinking -blue, keep steady, large,
where do I want to go? I created a collage from sky blue net fabric with
a pocket. In the pocket I inserted a square cut out from a comic with lines
like an animal's (elephant's) hair.
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| Bibi Walking Away from Feeling Small, detail |
Bibi: Walking Away From Feeling Small Mimi
called around 11am to say she didn't "get anything". She had
forgotten we had changed the time to 1pm. It made me realize that we
needed that connection between us to make it happen. That morning I had a
dream of a very small elephant walking through a jungle. I woke up thinking,
"Why do I feel so small?" I decided to do a piece about not feeling
so small anymore. I worked with images from the St. Louis Zoo and a field in
the Midwest. I noticed that I had cut out a hole in the field
accidentally. The elephant is walking away from the emptiness of the
hole. When talking to Mimi after we were both finished I realized I
had the negative space (the hole) in my piece and she had the positive (cut
out) in hers.
Walking Away From Feeling Small B. H. M.
Move
on
Move to
A new plane
Walk in
A new
direction
Take on
A new
course
Jump start
A new
progress
Moving on
toward
A new
zone
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