Lamurdi's Official Blog: Seasonal changes in Art making Inspiration

Does your art making vary with the seasons?
Do you have outside and inside projects?
Does the changes in weather and atmosphere affect you tools or ideas?

As the fall weather settles in on New England, I get inspired to quilt or work with fabric and threads.

I always have cotton sheets in my studio, so plenty of white fabric to do some experimental dyeing with. I got a bottle of liquid Rit Dye, a mason jar, and some salt. And then I had some fun folding, twisting and tying some small pieces of fabric.

I think they will be pieced together to make some sort of quilt.

With the same kind of inside nesting instinct, I have been stitching some small denim patches. Not really sure what I am going to do with them, but I like looking at them. So maybe they will become a placemat. That way I can enjoy them everyday.

It was also time to make a new gelatin plate. I had some plates that had been unused for quite a while and I tried to melt them down and reform them but they were just too fragile. So now let the fun begin with this fresh new gelatin plate!

Maybe some holiday cards or a new freshly preserved fern?

I also have a few things that I am working on that have deadlines coming up.

This image is about the theme, “what’s in my garden?” I don’t have a garden, but I am attracted to the cast shadows of roadside flowers and weeds, as I go on my regular cycling routes.

Do you remember the inspiring 1200 foot wall I saw last spring at the Children’s Hospital in Boston?

The other thing I am exploring is a book with the theme, “When I was 57” That is my current age and some changes are happening this year that I giving me reason to think about what is important.

I am thinking about making the book pages in the shape of 57.