Guest Artist - Caryl Gaubatz
Interlude, silk organza dyed & sewn using pojagi patchwork technique
Rusted Memories, photographs printed on silk habutai and sandwiched between layers of silk organza
Detail of Rusted Memories
From a Distance, silk charmeuse rusted and buried. Dye solution poured over the plot & allowed to percolate through the soil. After 3 days, fabric was dug up & washed thoroughly. Hand quilted with perle cotton. Appeared at "Wearable Expressions Exhibit", Palos Verdes Art Center,CA.
My Life in Camels, photographs printed on silk habutai & sandwiched between layers of hand-dyed silk organza
Tears of Wine, silk tussah pongee printed using breakdown screen printing technique
Photographs by Ansen Seale"My intent is to make narrative garments. A story may be told in words or pictures or implied by symbols and images. I use the many aspects of surface design on cloth to convey a message. The wearer is thus wrapped in layers of meaning. " Designing wearable art and quilts is Caryl's second career. She holds degrees in biology, parasitology and nursing, but now devotes herself full time to fiber art. She has taught workshops in quilting and dyeing and presented art-to-wear trunk shows to numerous guilds and service organizations. Her work has appeared in various fiber-related publications,as well as exhibits in France, Japan and Israel.
