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Wylie Sofia Garcia
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
New Projects Started At the Vermont Studio Center
So I am about 1/3 of the way done with this sculpture. But here it is right before my month long residency was finished. My goal is to get this done by November...
What started with 88 pieces of 18" wool roving, transformed into 264 3"x5" needle felted rectangle pieces, then they got divided at a diagonal into 526 triangles and then all needle pieced together to make this...
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Wylie Sofia Garcia
New Projects out of the Vermont Studio Center
These are images for my inspiration and motivation for the new series I am working on.
The grouping of images is more about the holographic exploration of the aura and the existence of an invisible flexible outer sensory layer that exists with all living things. There are also images of fashionable coats made by Irving Pen, as well as a photograph by Sarah Moon. I was fortunate to sumble upon a book about Vienna at the turn of the centry and discovered some Gustab Klimt designs made for his models to wear when he painted them. And or course there is my own scribblings and ramblings to make sense of how all of these things fit together...
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Wylie Sofia Garcia
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Still thinking about this.
Clothes can be so strange, intense, and lovely. Wonderful.
It is January 29, 2012. I am still feeling the power of this project.
I will be showing most of this work and work created during this time next November at G Gallery in Houston.
I am currently producing a catalogue for the show and will be off to the Vermont Studio Center on a Fellowhship to
create new marvelous sculpture textile things.... I love getting back into the swing of things.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
December 15, 2011, one month and one week post project
I am having a hard time finding the right kind of clothes to wear.
I find myself wanting to wear color, but regretting the way it makes me feel... So black clothes are what I revert to . Black and grey are my go to colors. Am I in mourning?
I have been asked by a lot of people "so what's next?". Well, I took some time off, with about two weeks of no sewing. I went back to an old passion of mine, historic painted theater backdrop conservation and research. Check out our website at www.curtainswithoutborders.com.
I then got a call from a friend in Houston who is opening an amazing boutique called La Camella and I started making t-shirts again. I am also working on a couple of dresses and fascinators for this store too.
I also picked up two wedding dress commissions, which I am very excited about.
Life goes on... But my evenings are now spent doing more reading rather than sewing. What am I reading? The Sookie Stackhouse Novels by Charlaine Harris, of course! Easy, fun, and thrilling.
I would also like to thank the Vermont Studio Center and the Sustainable Arts Foundation for a month long fellowship residency granted to me for this spring! So see, there now.... I will have some uninterrupted time to cook up something new. Perhaps my Josef Beuys ideas?
I also realized that there were some folks I forgot to thank for their support and friendship with this project... I am sorry I forgot to name you all.. But that doesn't mean I am not grateful for your wonderful help and support.
So I know I promised a calendar In the works... And yes, there will be one, but one for the next year. I need to organize this blog, get some images printed and collect all of my eggs... Then next year in 2012, November at G Gallery In Houston, TX I will display this amazing experience in all of it's glory.
So until then, keep checking back. I will have more to write as the new year approaches, happy holidays, warmth, and good cheer to all.
I find myself wanting to wear color, but regretting the way it makes me feel... So black clothes are what I revert to . Black and grey are my go to colors. Am I in mourning?
I have been asked by a lot of people "so what's next?". Well, I took some time off, with about two weeks of no sewing. I went back to an old passion of mine, historic painted theater backdrop conservation and research. Check out our website at www.curtainswithoutborders.com.
I then got a call from a friend in Houston who is opening an amazing boutique called La Camella and I started making t-shirts again. I am also working on a couple of dresses and fascinators for this store too.
I also picked up two wedding dress commissions, which I am very excited about.
Life goes on... But my evenings are now spent doing more reading rather than sewing. What am I reading? The Sookie Stackhouse Novels by Charlaine Harris, of course! Easy, fun, and thrilling.
I would also like to thank the Vermont Studio Center and the Sustainable Arts Foundation for a month long fellowship residency granted to me for this spring! So see, there now.... I will have some uninterrupted time to cook up something new. Perhaps my Josef Beuys ideas?
I also realized that there were some folks I forgot to thank for their support and friendship with this project... I am sorry I forgot to name you all.. But that doesn't mean I am not grateful for your wonderful help and support.
So I know I promised a calendar In the works... And yes, there will be one, but one for the next year. I need to organize this blog, get some images printed and collect all of my eggs... Then next year in 2012, November at G Gallery In Houston, TX I will display this amazing experience in all of it's glory.
So until then, keep checking back. I will have more to write as the new year approaches, happy holidays, warmth, and good cheer to all.
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