I was asked to participate in an exhibition at Lorang Fine Art on April 25-26.
The title of the exhibition is “Women in Motion”.
When I was first asked to participate I sat down with my journal and wrote what “Women In Motion” meant to me. The one idea that kept resurfacing in my mind was women in history.
That history could be global, local or even those women who have been significant in my own life.
I started looking at women who have made contributions to humankind rhroughout the ages and came across a lyric poet from Greece who lived somewhere around 630-612 BCE to around 570BCE. Her name was Sappho and she was born on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Although she was known to be a prolific poet few of those poems remain today but her reputation is still intact as a famous woman from certuries ago.
I found an image that was painted of her by an English painter, John William Godword
1861-1922.
I took that image and transfered it onto copper that I had previously heated and quenched to obtain the bright pinks and oranges that copper will achieve in those conditions.
There are few of her original poems, none completely intact (that I cound find) but a partial one in the Ames Museum in Berlin.
To replica her works I used Greek writing and transferred it to bark papyrus which once I had the transfer I tore up and reassembled to give it the look of an acient Greek writing.
I had found and purchased some silk sisal when I was in Australia and I dyed it, stitched it with metallic threads,air brushed it and then heavily beaded it.
I assembled the entire thing, layer upon layer and put it in a showdowbox frame with a black backing.
She’s lovely and I am so pleased that she will be an asset to the the upcoming exhibition.
