Silkworm Magazine, Volume 26: 1, 2019
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For this issue, the art work and process of two of our SPIN members, Melanye Coleman and Cudra Clover, inspired the theme for this issue: Landscapes of the Mind: Portraits of the Self and Others. In my proposal to the SPIN Board, I'd written the following: “As we know, the face or body that we present to the world is not always indicative of how we feel inside. However, art can see beyond the surface.The goal for this issue is to encourage Silkworm readers to think about the range of styles of portraiture in the past and present as invaluable sources of inspiration for expressing deeper levels of people's personalities, moods, or psyches.” In both feature articles, you'll see that Clover and Coleman also teach us about the integration of the digital and multimedia into silk art. And, before you say the digital is the domain of younger generations, read Nell Painter's words from her account of starting art school on her retirement, Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over (2018): “In Photoshop I chopped up my drawings that I had scanned in a process of repetition, recomposing, and recoloring that went on for days. Photoshopped layers and fractured, meaningless images transported me into pure visuality. I projected my Photoshopped images onto canvas and painted by hand. Taking further steps, I photographed my paintings and played with them again in Photoshop, to project and paint---again---by hand. In this way, in this endless toggling back and forth between my computer and my hand, I found my own manual + digital way to make art” (248). |
In This Issue |
Cudra Clover: Expanding the Unseen World to a Scale You Cannot Ignore by Mary Edna Fraser, Cudra Clover, and Liz Constable
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Melanye Coleman: 'This Ain't Yo Mama's Textiles' by Liz Constable |
