patchwork by LB

"Made from clothes and other domestic effects accrued over decades, Bourgeois’s fabric drawings are abstract yet acutely personal works, retaining allusions to the materials’ past incarnations. "

The eye-pleasing site, Intelligent Clashing, often leads me to exciting web research.  Today, through this stimulating portal I found more work I had never seen before by the greatest artist to walk this earth- Louise Bourgeois.  Hauser & Wirth in London is housing this group of small patchworks crafted of reclaimed fabrics, stitched and sometimes woven together in amazing compositional poems.

Sonia Delaunay

Wherever I live, I find that proper access to the library is so important.  Gaining access to the BSU library was a major step up for my life in Boise.  The shelves on the third floor are bursting with treasures like this oversized book on the amazing Sonia Delaunay.  This woman knew the importance of decorating- of surrounding yourself and draping the world in the patterns you want to see.  Lampshades, book covers, jackets, cars- everyday objects were redesigned by her with as much artistic consideration as a painting.  Working instinctively, she pieced together scraps of colors to make each object in her everyday life important and beautiful.