New series of aerial photos with beadwork. This is a collaboration with photographer and friend Leroy Grafe. He has generously shared these drone captured images of western landscapes. I have made editorial decisions about cropping and printing and based my designs on historic beadwork and weaving patterns.
The work is slow going, with a lot of care taken to preserve the delicate surface of the photo. I am sewing directly onto and through the paper, and am not using pre-punched holes. It is the same technique I use on a fabric matrix.
These images overlaid with geometric patterns are my way of illustrating a manner of interacting with the landscape. An attitude of interaction with the landscape that is at the heart of indigenous abstraction.
view of forest in winter, beaded with matte and luster white beads in parallel rows
Weaving pattern over a sky and horizon line
