silk jeweled and backlit

I hope never meet the ‘top guy’ in my life. I struggle with approval, and what if he didn’t like me?

I needed to make girly things after my second son was born, because I knew I wasn’t going to have a daughter. I compensated by creating sparkley, glittering coolness, and spent six months working on a silk piece in the ‘barrier reef ’ theme.

I paint-dyed a large piece of silk fabric in colorful reef shapes, like barnacles, large brown cucumber forests, and a sort of turtle. I stuffed the large brown cucumbers designs from behind, to bring up a 3-dimensional effect, and covered the whole thing with glued shiny jewels and multiple ropes of pearls. Making ‘barrier reef ’ was a gas, and it still makes me happy to look at it.

My work colleague, Bud, built a large frame for it, which I greatly appreciated, since I had no frame making skills. I found long plastic ropes of lighting, and set them behind the frame to backlight it, and when lights reflect the many jewels, it’s alive. ‘Barrier reef ’ made it to honorable mention level at the Marin County fair. Right on! Continue reading “Who is the ‘top guy’ who understands?” »