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Reflections on buildings are a very
popular subject matter for textile artists and it is easy to see why. The grid structures; the gradations in colour;
the relation to quilt blocks and so on.
Plus they are fun to photograph.
I haven’t made any work using reflections yet (at least I don’t think I
have), but I do love to photograph them.
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So when I arrived in New York, tired and at the end of a long day of travel a few weeks ago, I
determined that I was going to make the most of my time there and headed out
with my camera. It was a lovely evening
and the sun was beginning to set casting the most beautiful, quick changing
reflections – something I don’t get to see living in a low rise Scottish
village (although we do get the most amazing sunsets).
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New York felt very different from the last
time I visited, sometime last century – it had a relaxed sense, perhaps because
it was a Sunday evening and no one was rushing in a normal workday manner. The streets were busy, but everyone seemed to
be out enjoying the spectacle – maybe we were all tourists together!
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Hopefully one of these photos can
inspire you to make some new work this week.
2 comments:
Love your 'reflections' Gillian. I've never tried to recreate reflections in textiles...I have such trouble 'seeing' and am easily over-whelmed by detail in photographs. Perhaps I need to try again...
It's not something I've done either, but I have seen various successful versions at shows. The British artist Pauline Burbidge has some amazing pieces of water reflections. Well worth seeing.
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