100 Dresses

Have you heard of Crystal Cawley's 100 dress project?  I am participating in it although as usual I have put it off till the last minute.  Here is a picture of the dress I am submitting. It is about 10 inches tall and is glued to the paper provided by Crystal.

I made the dress by layering polyester organza and Lutradur. I would layer one organza piece over one lutradur sheet  and do some decorative stitching.  Then I did it again.  Then I stacked the two stitched layers, added an organza over them and stitched all 5 layers together.  Then, and here is the fun part, I melted it all with my heat gun.  The butterflies are from the second layer and were stitched as decoration into the organza; they did not melt.  I wanted to add a few more butterflies so they few already in the dress did not look so alone.  I burned the butterflies out of another piece of the organza and glued the butterflies to the front of the dress.  You can not see them well but I finished the dress with a few grommets to the bottom of the dress just to give it a bit more decoration, one more texture, and something that was shiny.

Catacombs under the Indianapolis City Market

The Indianapolis City Market opened in 1886 and  is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.  Then it was a farmer's market offering fresh produce.  Now it contains a wide variety of eateries, wine and cheese shoppes, and retailers.  Under the Market are "catacombs" which were originally the the basement and another old building that was built next door.  That building burned down and built over with the basement being sealed off until recently.  We toured the catacombs and here are some pictures.  Some of  them are blurry.  I kinda liked that it gave them a ghostly feel.

Some of the arches were filled in with brick to give additional strength when a new building was built above the basement.

Reflections

It was very frustrating trying to take pictures at the art museums. Many of the pictures were covered with glass that reflected me.  I finally decided to just love it.  These are all of the same photo that I photoshopped trying to make the image more obvious.  Interesting how different they are. I think the first is the original.  The picture in the image is a reflection of the artwork behind us and is merely reflected in the glass.

Schweinfurth Art Center

While in upstate NY we, of course, stopped at the Schweinfurth Art Center. It currently has an exhibit called "Transgressing Traditions."  It is the second annual juried member international show for the SDA. The show will still be up till the end of August so go and see it if you can.

Here are some pictures of my favorites, in no particular order other than my walk around the rooms.

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This piece has two layers.  You can almost see where the top layer is left loose at the top right corner to drape over itself. 

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As a printer and a crocheter I have to respect this piece. 

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Detail of Bittersweet.  Isn't that fabulous?

Many  more favorites to show.  I feel another post coming.

Light and Shadow

As I was taking pictures of patterns and textures, I started taking pictures of shadows including me taking pictures of me taking pictures of me taking pictures of shadows.  Here are some of my best shadows from my vacation.

me

my husband