plus six....with more on the way

I had a great weekend in the studio and have lots to show! It's an exciting milestone for me because I have only a dozen or so pieces left to resolve and I'm hoping this will happen in then next week so I can start focusing on the one of a kind edges of the installation where it starts going wild.

Before I start tonight, I have some business to take care of. I've been doing some more thinking about how this Kickstarter campaign is going to work: I will document all of the pieces online once the show is installed. Each piece will have its own name and placement code in the big picture of this installation. When it's time for my Kickstarter funders to choose which piece(s) they want, I will ask you for your top choice(s) with two backup choices. Then I will move down the list from the first supporter on down, fulfilling the earliest bidders from the top pledge tier first, and move down through the levels accordingly. There will be over 700 finished pieces in this installation, so there's a pretty good chance that everyone will get what they want. But if you're lurking in the shadows, you might think about getting your name on that wait list soon!

Okay. Enough business talk. It's time to unveil the weekend's offerings:

I'm going to title this mostly monochromatic piece "Pimpernel," after a very lovely design Morris did that you can see by clicking here. This piece is about three inches wide.

This is Rosebud. It's a tiny (two and a half inches high) pin named for a really sweet pattern designed by J.H. Dearle for Morris & Company. Dearle worked for the business nearly all of his life, coming as a teen and eventually being appointed art director of the firm upon Morris' death in 1896. He was multi-talented, creating beautiful designs for designs for tapestries, embroidery, wallpapers, woven and printed textiles, stained glass, and carpets

The piece on the left is "Cross Twigs" and the one on the right "Cherwell." These are small pins, no bigger than two inches in any direction. Cherwell was another Dearle design, with a beautiful thistle in this two-color print. 

This piece will be titled "Dove and Rose" after one of Morris' prints from 1879. It's about five inches high.

Last but not least, I present Wandle.  This is a piece I'm excited about because it's a new modification of a found object--the honey dripper. 

As a reminder, every one of the pieces you've seen today are part of the 24 panel repeats that dominate this installation.  I have two more that are pretty close to being done that I'll post in the next few days. Goodnight!