January 3, 2016

A New Textile: "Bound Circle"


Bound Circle, 2015, hand dyed wool on linen, 12 inch diameter


A circle is not a sphere, but this circle tries to be one. I am playing with flatness and illusion in this piece, using the direction of the hooked lines, and the dyed color of the red band, to emphasize each. I thought of the curving green lines as something like a cup, which the straight dark blue lines entered; in those two color-forms is a sense of shallow space. Then the curving red shape, in its movement from dark to light, becomes an illusion of a rounded form, entering the dark.



Bound Circle detail


Even in this detail, in which all the hooking is on a flat plane, the illusion insists on its reality. It is the magic of two dimensions becoming three.


6 comments:

  1. Nicely done. As usual, I'm drawn to the texture and direction of the hooking as well as the color and form.

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    1. Another nice example.
      Art: telling the truth through li[n]es.

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    2. Thanks, JBS, nice play of words.

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  2. Love this. It's as if I'm waiting for the "ball" to roll so I can see the rest of it.

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