Palmarin Merges

Contour lines, targets and growth rings

May 2011

Installation -

Mixed media on Kitakata paper

10.5" x 8.5"

Concentra 8412 (Yellow Frass)

January 2011

Mixed media on Kitakata paper

10.5" x 8.5"



Part of larger installation "Contour lines, Targets & Growth rings" measuring 6' x 8'

Concentra 8425 (100yds)

January 2011

Mixed media on Kitakata paper

10.5" x 8.5"



Part of larger installation "Contour lines, Targets & Growth rings" measuring 6' x 8'

Concentra 8444 (first division)

February 2011

Mixed media on lightweight wool

approximately 28.5" x 20"

In this piece there is a lithograph from 1997 I made in grad school as well as parts of a former motorcycle cozy.

Concentra 8440

March 2011

Mixed media on lightweight wool

19" x 14"

Concentra 8442 (Islands)

February 2011

Mixed media on lightweight wool

28.5" x 20"



By building upon and using previous imagery, I acknowledge the past without burdening the present and always going back to the beginning.

Concentra 8452 (Florida)

March 2011

Mixed media on lightweight wool

18" x 13.75



Each ring refers to a place in my time line as an artist, though not necessarily in chronological order.

Concentra 8443 (Tokyo, Portland, San Francisco)

February 2011

Mixed media on lightweight wool

19.5" x 28



Time as a circle is pictured in the rings of a tree. Each passing year is embedded in the bark and enfolded within its trunk as the tree grows. Tightly grouped lines express slow growth, drought or lack of sunlight; abundance is seen in rings that are broad and wide.

Concentra 8451 (Forest Grove)

January 2011

Mixed media on lightweight wool

14.5" x 15.5"

Statement »

Concentra

Sewing is that functional and utilitarian method used to create clothing along with a variety of other things needed for the home. Women often gathered together in a sewing circle or a quilting bee and to build a community for one another. Their materials were common things recycled from used clothing or sacks. I am connected to them in the spirit of invention, of taking materials that are easily accessible and giving them new purpose. Taking lithographs I made in grad school, collagraphs I made in Japan, monoporints and screenprints created in Oregon and incorporating concentric circular cut fabric and the technique of sewing by machine and hand and embellishing them with embroidery and thread, I explore the material quality of the fabric and the means by which the paper and cloth are connected.