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| DIAMONDS & RUST © 2008 Patricia Gould As a challenge to myself, I often switch gears from my representational work and morph into the abstract realm to just concentrate on the pure beauty of the fibers and embellishments. I started out just playing with two metallic colors, silver and copper. I worked with metals for many years and always loved the relationship between silver and copper; that has remained in my color choices with fibers. As I was cutting pieces of fabrics and yarns for the collage, the Joan Baez song, Diamonds & Rust kept haunting me. As I was looking at the pieces, it made sense; here was the contrast between diamonds, the precious gem created over time from coal, and copper, a beautiful, shiny metal that transforms as it ages and rusts. When I was pressing the copper side, my iron melted some of the lamé fabric and made it look like it had rusted, how perfect! “We both know what memories can bring; they bring diamonds and rust.” (with permission of Joan Baez) 32” x 30.5” EXHIBITIONS Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta, May 2009, Albuquerque NM Wallables & Wearables, Johnson's Gallery, December 2008, Madrid NM Seams Unusual, NM Art Quilters, Art Center at Fuller Lodge, June-July 2008, Los Alamos NM |
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