Project growth and changes.

People often ask me about how much planning goes into one of my pieces. There is a lot of forethought in choosing images, auditioning fabrics, yarns and threads, deciding if there needs to be underlayers to allow cutting through, etc, etc. For me what is equally important is the constant reevaluation  that happens as the piece evolves. 

It is not always possible to know  what will happen at final size, or with the final elements.  The above is just one example ( a pretty extreme one though!) of what happened recently.

I thought  I had a composition worked out (left image) but at full size is was too ambiguous and had a large unresolved area in the center.  I thought that  adding a third element would solve that and also create  more depth.   As it hung in my studio, I became less and less satisfied with the result   both in composition and in Subject matter. The looming large head became either "big brother" or "godlike" as I looked at it. Neither of those were my intent. 

So out cane the rotary cutter.  I was much happier when the top was cut away and the right to left directional flow was more dominant .