These Photos: 1) Making a rose throw pillow; 2&3) The throw pillows, finished; 4) An end table in the lady's restroom of a place I frequent; 5) A tile from a home show booth
The "recovering the chairs" project lead into the "making of throw pillows" project, which brought me back to something I've been writing in my notebook for a while. I have different notebooks for different works in progress, one of which is for items I am designed to make with my own hands, household items or living items. It's an obsession, something I do in addition to teaching and writing, to satisfy the ideas and images which come to me when I examine everyday objects and the way we live with them.
Depictions of roses interest me because they rely on repetition to build the flower motif in your mind. Wether it is done in metal, clay, fabric, wood or frosting on a cake, the repetition of a certain shape, and the repetition of a certain action, adds up to the image of a flower. The nature of a flower is to unfold, be it with two petals or a hundred, therefore repetition is also a design of nature.
When I had a bunch of leftover strips from making the chair covers, I knew I could use them to build a rose design. I did not overly plan the design. I started doing it, and as I did it, I lengthened the strips, let them overlap, let them be off-centered, until they filled out a square. I suspect a real rose has more order to it.
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