Tuesday 22 April 2014

flight patterns


one of the pieces i worked on while in residence in Portland last year
is now showing in Flight Patterns at Hartsfield Jackson Airport in Atlanta, USA
it's a little hard to see the detail of my work in the photo below
but it gives you an idea
L-R:
India Flint, Night Flight
Mary Ruth Smith, Flowers in the Clouds
Bounxou Daohaeung, Bird Kingdom
Michael James, The Long Flight: Sanctuary

image by Dot Moye

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this is what i wrote at the time about the making of 'nightflight'

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in memory of Dr Peter Schwerdtfeger
Professor Emeritus
Meteorologist, Glaciologist and Pilot
23 December 1935 - 20 August 2013


the making of 'NightFlight' was generously supported by the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans through a two week artist residency, co-facilitated by the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and also by the Oregon College of Art + Craft through a subsequent six-week residency. 
Silk for the project was donated by Beautiful Silks in Melbourne, Australia

'NightFlight' was dyed firstly wrapped around a piece of driftwood, using windfallen leaves as the initial colourant. The nocturnal shades were added by grace of an organically fermented indigo vat.
those of you with a copy of 'fieldnotes' may already be familiar with another piece of related text which also appears 


4 comments:

  1. Congratulations on reaching this new audience! That combination of indigo blues and plant browns/oranges/reds is delectable.

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  2. For your pa.
    Tis a beautiful thing, this memory,
    what you have done with blue.

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  3. a wounderful memory to your father

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  4. a wonderful memorial to your father, seems he must have been an interesting man with lots of stories

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