{"id":10537,"date":"2023-09-26T10:13:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/?p=10537"},"modified":"2023-09-26T10:13:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:13:05","slug":"african-dancers-in-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/2023\/09\/26\/african-dancers-in-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"African Dancers in Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We went to Amelia Island, Florida, to be part of a big event for ICM (International Cooperating Ministries) an organization that builds and equip churches around the world. It was our fourth time with them, making a fourth painting for them. As before, this was a group project, but this one involved gluing fabric, from Africa, right on the painting.
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Here’s the final product, a painting\/collage, on canvas, five feet wide by four feet high.
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We did it in a day, what with a due date. But there was lots of thought and work that went into it beforehand, including the sketch, above.
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During breaks, conference guests came by our “studio” at the back of the ballroom, selected a swatch of fabric and with a glue stick, adhered it into the design, with Anne’s oversight as to where.
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Anne did most of the assembly, and gets most of the credit for the design. I gave the art direction to her, something she resisted, but pulled it off better than I ever would have. Meantime, I painted the faces and figures.
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Here’s how it looked mid-way. As guests were given the afternoon off for relaxing, Anne and I plowed along till evening.
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A detail.
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Another detail.
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The fabric of the dresses as seen close up.
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In the end, both our names went on. It was a true collaborative effort, something unusual for us, as was the idea of making a painting with fabric, completely new.
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Finally, all the guests received this miniature version, matted, and valued as a keepsake for the 150 or so guest couples. Some, by now, have a collection of these from past years.<\/p>\n

They’re grateful, and so are we.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s another group-participation project for a cause, this time in Florida, and this time using fabric as well as paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10537"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10557,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537\/revisions\/10557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}