So, here's the sky in process, below. | And so on. But after thinking about the project for a while, I decided that would be cluttered and rather boring. So I noodled around about how to abstract the ideas of this small town on the flat, flat Coastal Plain. That's where I am now. I bought a big roll of primed canvas and today began to paint the sky. Later there will be rice fields. Maybe a train. Maybe one rice dryer (that's a pretty nice photo on the left.) Probably some live oak trees. |
The Eagle Lake Chamber of Commerce has been redecorating its Visitor Center/front office on Main Street. The building is an old mercantile, with lots of space, a new roof, and mostly donated furniture Back in March, volunteers did a massive cleanup and painting project. We painted the walls and ceiling white and added a huge Texas flag on a wall you can't see here. For the right hand wall above, I volunteered to make a big quilt. featuring something about Eagle Lake. Gee Gee and I had driven around town taking photos of likely buildings, etc.
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Finished today! I was getting worried about finishing the two long, narrow pieces, but finally got it done, bound, label in place. I had to raise the brackets in my display space to hang them up. Not the world's best photo, but you get the idea. Mayahuel, on the left, is the Aztec goddess of everything agave, including tequila,and is also a fertility goddess. Thus, the multiple rabbits. In the desert she emerges from an agave plant, wearing an elaborate tunic and a crown that resembles the blossom on her pink staff. She is fierce, but willing to share the vessel of beverage in her raised hand. Mary, visiting for the first time, wears the colors traditional to her in Mexico. She thought of bringing some wine, but wine jars are heavy and it's a long way from Nazareth. She will settle down, pet the bunnies and get to know this new sister goddess. Both are depicted as being pregnant, so they have a lot to talk about. The Aztecs controlled central Mexico from about 1300 to 1521, when the Spaniards conquered Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City). Mary appeared to the young Juan Diego in 1531 on a hill called Tepeyac, traditionally dedicated to the Aztec mother goddess Tonantzin. Lots of room for syncretism here. The looming, volcanic mountains, barren of vegetation in this dry country, rise crisply against the sunset sky. Time for a margarita, or maybe the delicious Campari-Mescal cocktail I enjoyed in Baja del Sur. |
AuthorBobbe Shapiro Nolan, Fiber Artist in Eagle Lake, TX. Trying to learn to call the sewing room my studio, and myself an artist. I retired after 15 years in hospice nursing--so now I have the time!. Archives
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