Land Escape
Kelly Hendrickson
Sky Gazer
I get further and further into the piece. it evolves until the end. While it still encompasses the original inspiration, it is often not exactly as I saw it in my vision at the beginning. I LOVE the serendipity of it all. It keeps the work exciting and full of discovery. Technical aspects are the servant of where a certain piece wants to go. I'm thrilled to have so many tools and techniques in my "toolbox", all those things I mentioned above that surround me and are close at hand to be there whenever needed. Now let's focus on your artworks: I would like to start from Solitude (that you have effectively defined as the ultimate expression of Land AND Escape) and Shattered Lives that our readers can admire in these pages. Could you take us through your creative process when starting these pieces?
"Solitude" was born when I was playing with batiks and creating pieces using the designs and colors in those beautiful textiles. The batiks themselves will often inspire the actual piece. The first textile I had was the wavy blue. It just HAD to be water. Then the piece appeared as the beginning concept. It looked so peaceful and reminded me of several canoe trips to the boundary waters area of Quetico Park in Canada. No motors are allowed in that particular area. The sounds that take the place of our daily cacophany are the rythmic whoosh of the paddles in the water, loons calling across the lake and the wolves in the distance. It is the place I think of often when life gets hectic. The beauty of the landscape and the lakes so clear you can actually see what is below the surface. It is renewing to the mind and the body and the soul. "Shattered Lives" was inspired by a group challenge theme of "The Days of Wine and Roses". I'm old enough to remember the movie (yet Solitude Limbo
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