Running Water series: Eau vive 3 and Eau vive 1

Eau vive 1 and Eau vive 3 – exhibition

Eau vive 1 and Eau vive 3 – exhibition

Eau vive 3 – final

Eau vive 3 – detail

Eau vive 1 – detail

Eau vive 3 – exhibition

Running Water series
Format: 152 cm x 215 cm – 4ft 12in x 7ft 1 in
Weight: 1615 g – 3 lb 9 oz
Date: 2016 – 2017
No. 194.2017.3

Technique: 6,825 textile squares 3cm wide, hand-assembled and quilted on a canvas base with a silk core

Description: Photos taken of the back of Eau vive 1 inspired another fabric effect in another, wider format. The oblique line in the original motif has been softened.

This achieves a honeycomb surface, revealing a new fabric with a relief pattern. The textile fragments seem to each melt into the next, producing a blurry optical sensation, almost Impressionist in its feel.

Between Eau vive  1 and Eau vive 3, the textile squares have gained in mobility, looking swifter, following a sharper slope in a landscape depicting the confluence of light and shade. This new relief assemblage achieves a floaty, sensual effect, as if fabric were layered with ether.

Exhibitions

 Paços dos Duques in Guimarães, Portugal, 2022

Showroom gallery 7, Lyon, France with the Biennale de Lyon in 2017, within the Résonance umbrella network