Well Rounded

Here we have a Victorian Metrosexual. 

He’s a man that knows his way around an embroidery hoop and the more genteel parts of domestic life.  Our fellas image has been transferred onto transparent material.  The outside of the box has photo transfers of cornucopias and warm domestic still life images.  

Well Rounded : 30″ x 24″ x 3″

265.00

Rook

I like this little girl with a bit of devil in her eye. She looks smart and cunning, just like a Rook.  I have done a photo transfers of the old card game “rook” on the outside of the box. 

This clever little girl is done as a transparent image through which you can see a large marble.  The whole piece is about a wily little game player.

Rook :

10″ x 8″ x 3″                                                       125.00

Riga

I built this piece around a true story and would love for it to find a good home.  

If not for this woman’s adventuresome spirit, I would not have her story to tell. 

Under the foreboding atmosphere of German oppression, a young woman set off for America to the World’s Fair.  What she couldn’t have known is how her decision ultimately saved her life, and keep a family tree alive.   

While in the United States Rayna’s mother wrote urging her daughter to not return home.  That letter is reproduced in this piece, you’ll see it on either side of the center image. 

Rayna stayed in the United States, fell in love and got married.  As her life settled her family in Riga, Latvia, were all sent to concentration camps and where sadly all killed.

This piece has a great deal of symbolism in it.  There’s the letter from Rayna’s mother with deep scratch carved over it, to depict the renching pain and fear surounding such and urgent letter.  There’s Rayna herself showcased in the center of the piece with her passport superimposed over her face.

Below Rayna’s image is a typical  transport used to move prisoners to concentration camps.  Above is a twig to represent the resilience of a family tree to re-root and grow again. 

On the outside of the box you’ll see what looks like a pattern but it’s actually all the arm symbols warn by the prisoners of the concentration camps.   I wanted it to have a patterned look because I think it’s hard to rap our minds around the actual number of lives lost. 

I would gladly donate this piece to a Holocaust memorial of some kind.

24″ x 24″ x 3″

Thinking Cap

This is a fun piece.  I get some of my best ideas in the shower and I know I’m not alone!  Can you see the mathematical equations on the shower curtain?

Thinking Cap

23″ x 23″ x 3″

$225.00 (newer piece)

SOLD

Mrs. Hadley’s 4th Grade

Doesn’t this woman just look like a teacher you had and maybe feared as a child.  This is a special piece because my mother was a teacher.  Going through her belongings after her passing I collected lots of her classroom stuff.  A few of those items are in this work, including the a,b,c’s that are on the outside and inside of the box.  There’s also a great wooden block at the bottom of the piece.  I can imagin it being used for endless imaginary things by children over the years it was in serivice. 

Mrs. Hadley’s 4th Grade

8.5″ x 6.25″ x 3″

$65.00 

Shel’s Game

The name “Shel’s Game” is a play on the Shell Game.  The con game you might see on a city street with three cups and a pea or ball.  I imagine that Shel fancies himself a player. He is either the guy who thinks he can beat the odds or the one dealing the hands.  If you or someone in your life love games, Shel would be welcome addition to your home.

Shel’s Game : 14″ x 4″ x 2″ : screen print, wood, photo transfers

$95.00

Welcome to Mixing Media

I’m choosing to close down my space at McRae Art Studio.  It feels like the right thing to do, but it’s a lot of work and emotions moving out of that space.  Not to mention I’m going to need to find a place in our house to put the stuff I’ll want to keep. Sorry honey.

 

I’ve decided to sell off a bunch of my finished artwork. I’m putting all the work up on this site and list the very lowest price I’m willing to take on each piece.  The buyer will be responsable for the shipping costs.  I can except Visa, Mastercard, and personal checks for the exact amount.

  

I might also put up my holiday orniments on this site.  It you’re not familar with them, they are irreverent and make for easy gifts.

 

I am ready to purge a lot of my holdings of both work and materials.   What I’m doing creatively has shifted and I need to make room for the new.  My biggest creative project right now, of course, is the book, and I don’t even need glue to do that.  If you want to keep up on what’s happening with my writing click HERE.  

 

With my visual arts I’ve been thinking I want to work with more modern, daily disposable products.  I’m about to start a large “fiber” piece using old audio tape, for example. 

I want to make the disposable product nearly unrecognizable but still somehow make a statment about the volume of waist.  Either illistrated through the size of the piece of the repitition of the object. 

 

Here’s to letting go and inviting in,

Rach