Another brick in the wall


Saved this post for hump day...

I started with my usual (for the Whitewashed series, anyway) background of "bricks".  

I explained what the bricks meant quite some time ago - but for those of you who missed it, (I noticed my followers rate fluctuates up and down a lot!) - the bricks form a wall - each individual brick is metaphorically composed of the things that make the wall with respect to whatever each piece's topic is. 


The fabrics I use for those bricks has meaning - the first two pieces were red, white and blue - or at least were meant to read that way - to represent the "America Now" component of the two pieces. 

In this case, all of these floral fabrics and pastel "girly" colour have multi-layered meanings - foremost among them, gender stereotypes. 


And the whitewashing - done with a thinned out version of Golden Acrylic's Titanium White I(after a first layer of gesso) - is meant to represent the ways that we all conspire to ignore what's going on in front of us, either out of apathy, or hope that "someone else" will take care of the problem.

Finished piece on Friday - fair warning - it may push some buttons; but either way, I'm looking forward to seeing what your reactions will be!

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Kit Lang

12 comments:

  1. Looking forward to it.

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  2. Kit, what does the gessoed/painted surface feel like? Is it stiff? Of course, you have lots of quilting as well. Buttons, you are putting pink and blue buttons on it! lol Push away.

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    1. I usually reserve this area for no-reply bloggers, but others might like to know the answer to this question so I'm answering it publicly.

      In fact, the hand of the gessoed/painted fabric is suprisingly good. It doesn't feel as soft as a bed quilt (but it's not meant to be on a bed, after all)but it's still very pliable and surprisingly soft - depending on what base fabric you use of course.

      For this and the others in the Whitewashed series, I've used upholstery samples and commercial cotton blends, and they're quite soft, still. But on the Mermaid piece I used a light-weight canvas (that I got a charity shop!) and it's much stiffer than I had expected.

      Either way, the extra bit of stiffness helps them hang really well so I'm very pleased with them.

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    2. Oh and also - when it's first cured, it'll be quite stiff, but once you start working with in terms of the quilting and stitching, it softens up quite a bit. :)

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  3. Thanks for sharing that info about the hand of the cloth after a coating--have often wondered and wanted to try, so maybe now :)

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  4. I love this series!! Can't wait to see the next post!

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  5. whitewashed over, aint that true of so many things in life

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  6. Anonymous25.7.12

    Can hardly wait to see the finished piece!

    Kat (wtrstone at aol dot com)

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    1. Thanks Kat - come on back on Friday! :)

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  7. My button awaits...

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  8. I love button pushing, especially gender stereotypes, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with this, Kit! Maybe I'll do this with some of my florals, which I hardly ever use now.

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  9. I am in awe -of the work and your new blog look. Go Kit go!

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