1. 14 Dec


    Detail of the “Growth” textile which originally began expanding in 2010.   The felted landscape, or Growth mural, focuses on the intense tactile qualities of fibrous elements. Using natural fibers of wool, various animal hair, and immersion dyes, I aim to replicate the natural development of traveling plant life. The process is parallel to the slow, natural progression of growth in mosses, lichen, and fungi when it explores a new environment. Like plants, human growth is a slow and laborious process in which we intuitively adapt to our surroundings; leading to continual transformation. The underlying layer is our unconscious development in which we store our memories and resilient capabilities. The continual growth of new colorful flora is shaped by our experience that we share with others. The embroidery of our thoughts represents the choices that lead to different paths we take in life. This is a body of art that hovers over the surreal, between the reality and fantasy of human cognition and its amazing ability to adapt to any environment. Hopefully this piece will make it to the Bridgeport Artist Competition.  More photos and work to come! Textile installation by Stephany Latham.

    Detail of the “Growth” textile which originally began expanding in 2010.  

    The felted landscape, or Growth mural, focuses on the intense tactile qualities of fibrous elements. Using natural fibers of wool, various animal hair, and immersion dyes, I aim to replicate the natural development of traveling plant life. The process is parallel to the slow, natural progression of growth in mosses, lichen, and fungi when it explores a new environment. Like plants, human growth is a slow and laborious process in which we intuitively adapt to our surroundings; leading to continual transformation. The underlying layer is our unconscious development in which we store our memories and resilient capabilities. The continual growth of new colorful flora is shaped by our experience that we share with others. The embroidery of our thoughts represents the choices that lead to different paths we take in life. This is a body of art that hovers over the surreal, between the reality and fantasy of human cognition and its amazing ability to adapt to any environment.

    Hopefully this piece will make it to the Bridgeport Artist Competition.  More photos and work to come! Textile installation by Stephany Latham.

     

  2. 26 Jun


    likin-lichen: Artwork by Stephany Latham All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. - Henry Miller I was finally able to photograph this piece in its natural habitat. It feels good to be back at panama rocks. Once stood a safe place for glaciers to inhabit. I love you old growth.  Cheers to another summer with you.

    likin-lichen:

    Artwork by Stephany Latham

    All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. - Henry Miller

    I was finally able to photograph this piece in its natural habitat. It feels good to be back at panama rocks. Once stood a safe place for glaciers to inhabit. I love you old growth.  Cheers to another summer with you.

     

  3. 11 Oct


    Plants can see.  We uproot and lop them, germinate and transplant them, largely as we wish.  It seldom occurs to us, as we pick a burr from our socks or drink another glass of wine, that we are actors in strategies that we initiated not by ourselves but by them, strategies that have been hugely successful in their campaigns to claim ever more living space on earth for their species. (David Attenborough) This blog is an attempt to see the natural world, not from my own point of view, but from theirs. Artwork by Stephany Latham

    Plants can see.  We uproot and lop them, germinate and transplant them, largely as we wish.  It seldom occurs to us, as we pick a burr from our socks or drink another glass of wine, that we are actors in strategies that we initiated not by ourselves but by them, strategies that have been hugely successful in their campaigns to claim ever more living space on earth for their species. (David Attenborough)

    This blog is an attempt to see the natural world, not from my own point of view, but from theirs.

    Artwork by Stephany Latham