Jennifer Gould's handmade and designed art dolls, often featuring her handprinted fabric, hand drawn faces or needle-sculpted faces, articulated hands, using juxapositions of highly patterned fabric. Jennifer also displays her hand printed jackets, fabrics, and comments on how they're made and her influences and inspirations for the pieces. www.JenniferGouldDesigns.com
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Mother and Child III
I've just finished this piece for which I am very proud. She's the third in the series of a woman holding a baby who's in a cockle shell. This one was done for the "Celebration" show, an annual juried show at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Grand Rapids. (The dress was white cotton knit shibori dyed in brown/black.) I won SECOND PRIZE (tied with Ron Head for his bronze sculpture of "Mercy", a pieta)--very gratifying.
My life has been in a little upheaval lately (a friend of mine died and I adopted her two cats--trying to get them to acclimate to my house and my cat Sweetie Pie with all the hissing, growling, screaming; and my car/van is out of commission and needs a rebuilt transmission...) so this textile figure really gave me a lot of peace and a feeling of accomplishment, as well as gratitude for all the things I have.
I love fabric and, in my textile pieces, I work to glorify the essence of cloth. I've found that textile figures, or dolls as I call them, satisfy me the most in expressing the form of the human figure.
As Federico Fellini said, "All art is autobiographical." Even though a lot of my current work is self-portraiture, what I create today I couldn't have done yesterday because of what I experienced between then and now. Every minute counts.
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