A selfie in the shower? How ordinary ...

Seriously - there's a call for entry from SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) challenging us to create an art quilt through the process of rethinking the known and ordinary. So where better than the shower ...on retreat? I got to thinking about the ordinariness of taking a shower (if you are a privileged western and probably white person) - the un-thought assumption that a tap turned means pressurised water will fall from the shower head  - I remain struck by the ordinariness of "taking a shower".  Door mats, drain and shower heads make for a rather interesting and not-so-ordinary fabric.

It's called Housework

I'm in the house. I'm working. The receipe is below ...

Journal drawing

Silk with gutta resist, Karen Pharr fabric paints

And I painted ...



and coloured and painted some more



and painted and coloured




colouring in with watercolour pencil + Jo Sonjas



add rock salt plus some extra from the grinder

and some rice

If you got this far then all you need now is to let it dry for 24 hours or so ... this may now entail me actually putting hand to vacuum cleaner or similar. When completely dry it will need to be heat set, washed and hopefully it will be another finished the piece by tomorrow. Ankie  - you have absolutely no idea what you have let loose in my head .... thank you.