Another work showing in the
exhibition Sense of Place at the Alice Gallery are my whimsical Yellow-headed
Blackbirds wristlets. These birds are in abundance in the spring at Bear Lake
Migratory Bird Refuge on the shores of Great Salt Lake where my exhibition
partner Kelly Baisley and I spent a morning surrounded by them. The brightly
colored birds nest in the tall rushes and grasses of the wetlands. Their flashy
yellow and black plumage demand attention as they roost and fly along the
shores.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Monday, November 19, 2018
Inland Sea Foam
Inland Sea Foam, another work I collaborated on with Jewelry Artist Mary Lambert, is on exhibit now at the Alice Gallery in Salt Lake City. This fluffy cowl was inspired by the unique long-lasting foam found at Great Salt Lake. While out at the lake this summer I gathered hopper salt crystals that were large and well formed. Mary made them into beautiful buttons for this piece. They are the perfect accompaniment for this cowl.
Foam is caused by waves
making bubbles on bodies of water, although it cannot form on high
surface-tension water like very salty lakes. But Great Salt Lake has abundant
phytoplankton that create a surfactant or soap-like substance. This surfactant
lowers the surface tension allowing large quantities of stable foam during
windy days. Another part of the surreal and wonderful Great Salt Lake
landscape.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Salt Gatherer
In addition to the exhibition
Sense of Place that I have at the Alice Gallery, one of my pieces was accepted in
the Utah Statewide Annual exhibition. Salt Gatherer celebrates the beautiful
range of pink salt that can be found on the shores of Great Salt Lake. The
buttons were created by my jewelry artist friend Mary Lambert out of salt and
silver. We gathered the salt crystals together last April and Mary made the
most beautiful buttons out of them. The opening for the Statewide Annual is
this Friday evening at the Rio Gallery.
Mary also created some
cocktail rings out of salt that she made to photograph with the mitts out at the
lake. She entered those in the Statewide Annual and they were accepted too! They
beautiful and fragile rings that complement my piece so well.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Gniess at Unicorn Point
Another piece I created for
the Sense of Place exhibition was inspired by some 1.7 billion year old rocks
called gneiss. Kelly and I were lucky enough to go out to the southern tip of
Antelope Island on Great Salt Lake called Unicorn Point with our friends from Antelope Island State Park to
see these pink striped rocks. The piece is called Gneiss at Unicorn Point and
is peppered throughout the pink stripes with small chips of quartz like the
rocks themselves.
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Sense of Place
I created several new pieces for my and Kelly Baisley’s upcoming exhibition Sense of Place at the Alice Gallery in SLC. This
piece of wearable landscape is inspired by an early morning sunrise we
witnessed at the salt flats in the west desert. The exhibit opens this Friday
but also come to the reception on December 7. I will be publishing patterns of
the new art I created throughout the next month so if you like anything you can
knit it up yourself! The first will be this one, Salt Flats Sunrise published
in Ravelry.
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