Again using leftover fabrics from a quilt made long ago, it was not clear at the outset whether the sky background made from home dyed fabrics fit in with the vase series currently in process. I found that the effect of the overlapping triangles and quadrilaterals was evoking a sense of perspective that had been my vision explored through my PhD thesis as it relates to the season festivals on the Wheel of the Year for the Southern Hemisphere . Although not layered – the are joined pieces, there is the illusion of distance as the eye moves across the various tones of blue and mauve patches, both coming forward and receding into the background.
https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws%3A12868
No call for vases or flowers this time. Outlines of birds with their wings outstretched in full flight became the subject matter, flying towards or across the light of a fecund full moon. Cut out in white silk and pale blue satin, the way the forms pick up the light gives a strange eeriness of gentle movement between the perspectival views of the background due to the nap of the fabrics. Light plays with the fabrics, such that some birds drop out of visibility as others emerge into sight. A pale grey binding seemed in order to suggest the cloud patterns and sky colours stretching in all directions.
