Knitting up some Malabrigo

 Rasta

850 Archangel

 

 I love the natural pattern that the Malabrigo Rasta yarn creates!!!

 Rasta

866 Arco Iris

Notice the patterning once again...

Yarn Production

 Thanks to the lovely Adrienne Callander, I now attained the last piece of equipment necessary for production of yarn. A swift!!

 It is nice all-wooden machinery.

 New colorway I'm carding and spinning

 So anxious to use my new swift I balled up Adrienne's angora (goat not rabbit? I'm assuming) that she sent home with me.

Missing Home

Home Sweet Home Spun

holding onto what we have left of fall and its beautiful sunsets- there's nothing like a sunset in the country

More Installation Exploration

Anya Gallaccio

red on green

1992 London

Wolfgang Laib

Without Place-Without Time-Without Body

2007

 Rachel Whiteread

Embankment

Alicia Eggert
Equation
neon. plywood
2011

Alicia Eggert
All My Clothes
2006-2007

Alicia Eggert
Ghosts of a Tenant Departed
2006

 Alicia Eggert
All My Clothes (not to scale)
2006
343 drawings

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Valley Curtain

1970-1972

Rifle, Colorado

 The installation was only up for 28 hours due to the threat of 60 mph winds. 

Imagine the impact this piece would have on a person upon approaching it.

Gates

 Drawing/ Map

2004

Central Park, New York

 1979-2005

7,503 panels

covered 23 miles of walkway

Wrapped Trees

1997-1998

Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park

Riehen, Switzerland

 

"The branches of the Wrapped Trees pushed the translucent fabric outward and created dynamic volumes of light and shadow and moving in the wind with new forms and surfaces shaped by the ropes on the fabric."

Installation Art

Contemplation and drawing inspiration from other artists.

Appeal of Installtion Pieces:

• impermanence
• mirroring life's constant ability to change
• no foundation allows the eye to imagine the piece flowing beyond the space it fills
• does not truncate the piece
• is not static
• defy typical expectations
• organic form; flow
• separate units making up the larger piece representing the idea that no two things are exactly alike
• transform the perception on space
• broader sensory experience
• space and time are often the only dimensional constants
• applying the dissolution of the line between art and life

Other thoughts:

• a piece that is a loose representation of a concrete object
• imagery
• state of total artistic immersion

Artists the wonderful Adrienne Callander recommended to look at:

 Dan Steinhilber

Tara Donovan

Louise Bourgeois

The Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago

 Gustave Caillebotte

Paris Street; Rainy Day

1877

Oil on Canvas

 Claude Monet

Arrival of the Normandy Train

1977

Oil on Canvas

 Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Woman at the Piano

1875/78

Oil on Canvas

 Georges Seurat

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

1884

Oil on Canvas

 Claude Monet

Water Lillies

1906

Oil on Canvas

 Jackson Pollock

Greyed Rainbow

1953

Oil on Linen

 Marguerita S. Ritman

"Untitled" (Silver Beach)

1990

Offset Prints on Paper

'visitors are invited to take a sheet of paper'

I folded my piece

 Lee Bontecou

Untitled

1960

Steel, Canvas, and Copper Wire

 Salvador Dali

Inventions of the Monsters

1937

Oil on Canvas

 Salvador Dali

Imaginary Portrait of Lautreamont at the Age of Nineteen Obtained According to the Paranoiac-Critical Method

1937

Graphite on board

 Pablo Picasso

The Old Guitarist

1903/4

Oil on panel

 Uchikake

1930

Silk

 Grant Wood

American Gothic

1930

Oil on beaverboard

Georgia O'Keeffe

Cow's Skull with Calico Roses

1931

Oil on Canvas