The week of Art and snow

I spent a lovely day Tuesday meeting with several friends 

at SAAM (Smithsonian American Art Museum).

We wanted to see the Obama portraits and found 

more of a crowd in front of Michelle's portrait 

than in front of the President's but I'm sure that changed all day.

Both were even better in person/paint than 

the images you see printed or on TV.

 We were surprised when we discovered that the Do Ho Suh 

exhibit had just opened. 

It is a wonderful unusual and beautiful show. 

He uses sheer Poly fabric in many colors over steel wire 

to create transparent sculptures of common household items, 

he calls Specimens. 

The installation included a long walk-through area 

 hall-like with doors and windows and more specimens.

There were also a couple of huge drawings 

on hand-made paper using thread or paint.

The whole experience is well worth a trip to see and 

walk through that long installation.

 

 Wednesday, the snow fell all day and everything closed. 

I think we saw perhaps 6 inches, nothing compare to NY or Boston

but enough to close the federal government and the schools,

and telling us to stay home......

 So I did and added an over-sized lady bug to this small

(12 by 12) embroidered quilted panel.

Titled ALONE AT LAKE ARROWHEAD 

as the tree is from a drawing I made 100 years ago 

when we had a house at Lake Arrowhead that

we shared with 2 other couples and their families.

 In the meantime  I baked a couple of birthday cakes and 

rather than candles I added a lot of painted wafer paper butterflies.

They are all eatable but no one wanted to eat them. 

So talking about those butterflies.........

..... in my last blog I wondered if I would finish the butterfly piece 

I had been looking at and not working on 

for several months. I cut it in half the day we lost power.

It was finished and photographed this week by Greg Staley

 This pair of butterflies still has no title 

but I will come up with a name soon

 The total size of the Pair is 35 inches high by 47 inches wide.

 So, now what do I do with all the left over embroidered butterflies.

Over the last year I had made hundreds in all sizes and colors.

 Some will go in my notecards.....

And I still have more. I am through with butterflies. 

Of course that is what I said about hands 

but they keep appearing, so who knows what will come next.

Stay tuned....