Moss Street Paint In 2010 and Distort Sculpture 177

Sculpture # 177 started at the AGGV Paint In is now complete.






The Annual Art Fair - The Moss Street Paint In
with an estimated 35,000 people on the street.

Distort Sculpture 176

Driftwood and crocheted cotton, acrylic


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A glimpse of the studio wall as the numbers increase in the series.

Distort Sculpture 175

Driftwood, recycled yarns, acrylic, graphite

Distort Sculpture 174

Distort Sculpture 173

Distort Sculpture 172

Distort Sculpture 171

Distort Sculpture 170

Slowly but surely . . . more from the recycling and revisioning of found objects.

Distort Sculpture # 169

More found objects get incorporated into the base of this piece.

Distort # 168

The inner core of this piece is a spool that is from a 1967 Toronto mill. One of those things someone (like me . . who may have tendencies leaning towards the hoarder) who hangs on to . . "perhaps too" many things as a potential for further use . . .

Distort # 167

The journey continues . . .

Distort # 166

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Distort # 164

Recycled plastic netting is crocheted to make this form.

Distort # 163

A study in Pinks

Distort # 162

Distort # 161

Distort # 160

An old net float started the idea for this piece. The stash of materials from the local thrift store also came in handy.

Distort # 159

The base of this piece is a knitted sock my mother made when I was in my teens. I've carried it around for nearly 30 years! Now it is re-visioned as part of the Distorts Series of sculptures.

Distort # 158

Crocheted twines, burlap, recycled objects (wood frame, rubber ball)

Distort # 157

Recycled knitted wool remnants with crochet overlay

Distort # 156

Wooden Spindle, corked and crocheted tarred hemp, twine

Distort # 155

Crocheted twines over cord, acrylic

Distort # 154

Crocheted yarns with wire armature.

Distort # 153

Crocheted wool and felted oakum

Distort # 152

3 views
Wool, needle felting, crochet

Distort # 151

3 Views
Needle felting using White Buffalo wool and oakum

Distort # 150

Layers and layers of mohair wool used to begin the bulk of this work.It took many weeks of alterations and additions to finally say this one is "finished".

Distort # 149

A form that began with the recycling of a shower curtain ring and developed from there.It required fibre fill stuffing to give the definition it needed to see its completion.

Distort # 148

Distort # 147

Distort # 146

Distort # 145

Distort # 144

Distorts Installation at Studio J ArtSpace

Images taken by Photographer Kelvin Lloyd of Victoria, BC

Distort # 143

Distort # 142

Distort # 141

Distorts # 138, 139, & 140

Works created for a small show that traveled for awhile . .

Distort # 137

Distort # 136

Distort # 135

Distort # 134

Distort # 133

A masher used as the armature in this piece. A "cousin" to the work that sold at the "Hooked" show.
I've been busy working on segments of pieces and finally at a place of completion around some of them. More posts coming soon.