Pink and blue, pink and blue. What is it about pink and blue? Why do we clothe our babies in pink and blue? What’s not to love about the color of bubble gum and the blue of a pure blue sky? I have long wanted to work in these colors. They are evocative to me in ways that I don’t yet completely understand.
I spend a lot of time watching the sky. When clouds hover close and low, and get tinged with pink, you feel you could almost touch them. But the colors are fleeting. Changing. Gone in an instant. And you can’t exactly touch a cloud. Maybe it’s the evanescence that fascinates me.
The Pink Cloud Series are woven from Japanese viscose coated raw silk, and pine paper. The warp was indigo-dyed in collaboration with master dyer Rowland Ricketts. In addition I painted the warp and weft yarns with watercolor pigment in shades of coral and rose. I wove 12 separate units each 14” wide by 20” long. Each one has a split woven into the work by using two shuttles instead of one, which doubles the time it takes to weave, but creates an enigmatic folded shape that plays with ideas of inside, outside, the hidden and the revealed.
