Reflection Textile By Mary-Clare Buckle

Year:

Medium:

Textile

Size - (USA):

51 W x 93 H x 1 D (cm)

Size - (metric):

20.1 W x 36.6 H x 0.4 D (inches)

Theme:

Abstract

Edition:

Original

Artwork ID:

180563

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Artwork Info Sheet (PDF)

Artwork Description:   My 'floating felts' are fine, translucent, abstract textile (fiber) art pieces, using wool and other fibres (especially metallic thread or fabric), typically with uneven edges and utilising a very wide palette of colours. These pieces are framed by sandwiching between sheets of 4mm-thick clear acrylic sheet, fastened with small brass bolts and hung from nylon line slightly away from the wall, giving a feeling of floating in three dimensions. The eye of the viewer can stray on and off the piece, unconstrained by a conventional rectangular frame. Spotlights bring a vibrancy to the pictures, by reflecting off metallic, or other shiny, elements in them. ---- Like a lot of the work I'm producing at the moment, I was orginally intending to cut up the piece to include 'tiled' squares in future pieces. But, when I had created it, I decided, instead, to cut the whole piece into squares - somewhat akin to David Hockney's photomontages, in which dozens of polaroid images were used to build up the whole piece. The piece grew organically and became much larger than I had originally expected, as I added more and more squares. When I had finished the piece, it brought to mind the orange/red-coloured buildings in Morocco or Tunisia, reflected in water ...