Sunday, January 7, 2024

Portraits of Ghosts

I recently started a new series, Portraits of Ghosts, which deals with the fires which occur more and more frequently in the liminal space between human habitation and wilderness.  I've been taking photos from 2017 on in places like Santa Rosa, CA, where fire raged up to the property line of my family's home.  And in Lahaina, Maui, HI, destroying one of the oldest cities in the US. There are countless more examples of these in every region on the planet.  Here are the first 3 in the series - all the stitching is by hand and I painted Tyvek to add a bit of dimension to the areas that were still ablaze.   











Sunday, December 3, 2023

Some End of the Year Catch Up

I figured it would be best to just post these items that I have worked on in the latter part of this year and haven't gotten much "press" yet.   Some fun eye candy!  Contact me if you want more info (FiberFly@icloud.com).


Held Harmless #17





Anthurium






Algae




#11 (There isn't an actual title for this piece)




Between a Rock and...




Portraits of Ghosts




Royal Flush - My Nephew Alex Shirwo's artwork.  I will be adding stitching once it has returned from the printer.



Friday, October 27, 2023

Fiber Art Now Winter Edition 2023-2024

 

Excellence in Quilts III




From OzQuilt Network's Monthly Report:
Deborah Weir has a piece, 'Midden #1,  juried into Excellence in Quilts III.  The piece has a VERY 3D surface. Excellence In Quilts III appears in Fiber Art Now released in early October, 2023. Midden #1 was also selected for the onsite exhibition at the Texas Quilt Museum, May 2 -  August 31, 2024.

Saturday, August 5, 2023

HH #20 (working title)

 I sent a photo of this collage off to Spoonflower and ended up returning the print as the white wasn't really WHITE.   It was a light dove gray so the contrast was wishy washy.  I don't think my image was gray, but in any case I'm waiting for it to return to me with much cleaner contrast between lights and darks.  (On Blogger the whites look brownish, hmmmm.)







Receding Figures on view once again!!

 Luckily, Receding Figures, a collaboration I did with Steven Mandell, will be shown at the Last CA 101 at the Redondo Beach old library.  I'll be there from 6-7:30; hope you can come as well!!




Maw of Fire

 Maw of Fire was created in Photoshop. I had it commercially printed then stitched and beaded the piece all by hand (of course!).






Thursday, May 18, 2023

Sunday, May 14, 2023

PHES Gallery in Carlsbad, CA

 5 of my pieces were invited to this exhibit of So Cal heavy hitters.   And, yes, that's After the 6th Extinction on the announcement.   This invitational show includes work by about a dozen amazing textile artists.  Don't miss it is you are nearby!!


Sunday, May 7, 2023

Turns Out: Chicken Little Was Right!

 The sky is indeed falling on this poor little guy!   This quilt (with 4 months of hand stitching) is 41" x 33" and my new phone's photos capacity really shows the details.  Does the world feel like this these days?

    





Saturday, May 6, 2023

Strings of Desire

 Lucky to see this great show of contemporary embroidery in LA with 5 of my dear friends at Craft Contemporary.  Had lunch in West Adams which was GREAT!!  Mixed media hand stitching, what more could one ask for??!?!!















Monday, March 27, 2023

Industry/Luxury

 Cool upcoming Art Cloth Network exhibit!!   Stop by if you can.




Friday, March 3, 2023

CAGED

 CAGED is my latest 3D piece.  It refers back to the art quilts I did several years ago on the subject of incarceration.   I came upon a rusty old tomato cage and knew right away that it was crying out to become a piece of art.  I covered it on 2 of its 3 sides with Fosshape to act as a substrate for the textiles and stitching.   To that I applied cheese cloth I'd dyed murky browns.  Then I made warts and knobs and other oddments, mostly hand dyed, that I stitched into place through the open third.  I spray painted the interior when all the stitching was complete.   Getting it to balance was a bit of a trick, but it's very steady now.    It stands just over 2' high.