We imagine Joan Mitchell keeping her cigarettes in a bag like this.
The base composition is a hand-screened aerial photograph of Los Angeles. Elements of the twisting meander of road and waterways are hand embroidered in tonal Japanese cotton thread. This abstraction creates almost ghosts of what has been, referencing the layers of lives cities hold.
Comprised of 14oz raw canvas, 100% Japanese cotton thread, screen print ink, and lined with dead stock midnight blue linen, this mixed media piece pulls on the history of art, the celebration of the craft of embroidery, and the ancient practice of adorning bags.
The words ‘My Imagination Won’, essential in most of Mood Swing’s work, comes from the act of making. They help us describe what it was like, as an artist, to make this body of work.
We imagine Joan Mitchell keeping her cigarettes in a bag like this.
The base composition is a hand-screened aerial photograph of Los Angeles. Elements of the twisting meander of road and waterways are hand embroidered in tonal Japanese cotton thread. This abstraction creates almost ghosts of what has been, referencing the layers of lives cities hold.
Comprised of 14oz raw canvas, 100% Japanese cotton thread, screen print ink, and lined with dead stock midnight blue linen, this mixed media piece pulls on the history of art, the celebration of the craft of embroidery, and the ancient practice of adorning bags.
The words ‘My Imagination Won’, essential in most of Mood Swing’s work, comes from the act of making. They help us describe what it was like, as an artist, to make this body of work.
14 x9 in
Canvas color is cream, embroidery stitch is cream, embroidery words is rust.
Made by hand by artists in California. 3-4 week turn around time.
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