I made this painting back in 2006 when I was living on our family’s farm in Eastern Nebraska. It was painted towards the end of my life there. I was really getting into incorporating all kinds of material and media into my oil painting amalgamations.
In this particular painting, I thought of this idea of using some old towels that were no longer being used by my grandmother or the rest of our family. I decided to use them in this painting. Also, the branches you see composing the stems for the flora are actually real branches. I picked them up from branches laying around in the windbreaks.
I also used some cardboard box material for other textures. Different types of textures was really what I wanted to experiment with. I wanted to become a force of nature and use techniques nature uses to weather all things existing on earth.
The flowers themselves are composed of some of the sewing material my grandmother had stored away, and never used. The flower on the leftmost side of the picture has some thick material I cut out from an old bathroom rug.
I would still be creating things like this if I had the studio, and materials I once had when I lived in Nebraska.
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