This piece started with the acquisition of the bride's dress. This large and luminous form hung from our barn ceiling and seemed to attract the other elements of the story. The groom, of course! His slim dark green torso and long springy legs are a linear papier mache counterpart to her voluminous white fabric softness.

The sunflower blesses their union. Its dramatic flower head was cast over a bowl using printed paper to give botanical detail. The leaves are printed with actual sunflower leaves onto recycled metal printing plates.

We thought the sunflower, inspired by the glorious, huge flowers growing in our garden seemed to embody the "Yes!. Yes!. Yes!" of Kenneth Patchen's poem.

To the left is a piece in progress about the artist's task. As artists we make and we believe and we ask you to believe in what we have made.

The heart, with its pulsing rhythm, carrying air to the far reaches of our interior realm, becomes extended in a tracery of tree branches against a painted blue atmosphere. Plant forms and human anatomy inter-mingle in both the backdrop and the figure in front of the it.

Why the tiger mask? It is inspired by a leather dance mask in our Mexican collection and serves to remind us of the wild and, at times, scary terrain of the artist's unknown.

The large hanging banner is constructed of several pieces of painted, printed muslin sheeting. Surface treatment includes stenciling, rubbing, drawing, painting and printing. The figure hanging in the foreground is cast over a male manikin. The surface is printed with leaves from our garden. These were then worked back into with a mixture of paint and paste. The figure has yet to acquire arms and hands.

They are so

Happy you could

Make it.

Out of this

May come

Something

Nobody

Quite figured on.  

Kenneth Patchen