My name is thelmasmith. I am a working artist and an independent curator. I live in the Sonoran Desert. My artistic medium is predominantly textiles. The genre that most fits what I do might be Other. I use dye to paint with. I hand dye cloth. I hand dye threads. I use anything and everything that may come to hand.
Congratulations to Monique Gilbert of Bierbeek, Belgium. Diversion of the Night sold Sunday, March 19, at the Tubac Center of the Arts.
I have mixed feelings. I am delighted to see it sold. However it always hoverred at the edge of my peripheral vision. I guess it was one of those works of art I was considering for myself.
If you haven't run across the name thelmasmith before, here's a bit about me: I am outspoken and opinionated, eccentric and idiosyncratic. My body is sixty two, my mind comes and goes. Some days my mind is six; other days it's sixteen or six hundred. Some days interesting things fall out of my mouth and out of my fingers, seeming through no volition of my own. Some days a tart tongue but never with malice. Other days long meditative rambles. Once in a while a blurry perception of the society we live in. So there you have it, a thumbnail sketch of thelmasmith; partly truth and partly fiction, and always unredemptively curious.
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I love the look of this piece. Could you please describe it? Is it a printed cloth? Stitched/quilted? I can see why you were considering it for yourself!
I find it really interesting to read that pieces are selling - keep up your marvellous work!
Omega,
I've taken so long to get back to you.
The cloth in "Diversion of the Night" appears to be a piece of black cloth that has been reduced by removing some of the black dye. Then the red - sort of a cinnabar actually - seems to have been laid in streaking as it was wet.
The stitching is by machine. Yes, it is quilted. thelma
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