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About the Garment
As a single mother in January of 1995, the Carmel Valley River took most of my belongings including my car overnight. After many years of nightmares, creating this piece was the culmination of coming through the experience and being able to move on.
Constructed using fabrics and objects that were stained in the flood, it is a smaller version of the giant garment (2 stories tall in my dream!) that lumbered down the streets with mud and trees falling away trying to get to me. After years passed, the image got smaller and a manageable size to make. The image that came to me as I cut into the fabric was actually one of my pattern designs (The Torri #110)….which was a nice moment of humor in the whole experience!
The screen frame is open and breathable….allowing all the things we need to let go of to pass through. There are things we can’t get through if we don’t breathe. The screen is the only thing on the ground- I experienced the place of not being grounded for a long time…standing only in my shell… without the tap root I’d become so accustomed too.
I felt that day serge up inside me all over again as I rubbed mud and paint and tied sticks to the garment. The ladder was my way out….the tops poking up through the neckhole…. like snail tentacles timidly feeling out into the new world. The small, white pristine figure of me, climbing and ready to be in the world again from the inside. The quiver holds the stories of my flood experience.
Creating this piece was a day I was grateful, from the bottom of my soul, for the tools I’ve been given to express myself.
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