I started out with a lot of leftover-fabrics from costumes I sewed years ago for my brother, friends and myself. Evenso I am not a lover of glizzy stuff, carnival is different!! It cannot get shiny and glizzy enough!
There are lots of confetti all over the piece. Watching a carnival parade usually means I get lots of confetti thrown at. I always take some home, as hard as I try to get rid of them befor entering the house. It is mess each time. The last confetties I usually find in my car tyre covers when I change tyres in spring!
The hole in the quilt stands for the hole in ones pockets after an extended carnival season! All the partying can get rather expensive.
Last but not least we love to decorate with paper streamers (hope I got the right translation)!
Mine are done three dimensional with yarn or/and fabric covered wire!
Though my plans have changed several times for the piece, from masks and feathers to a potato out paper-machée and jute (of which the original gets burned at the end of carnival in my homevillage) and time was running out… – I enjoyed going through all those fabrics with memories for each of them and creating a new piece and memories, too.
You managed to pack lots of ideas and thoughts into your piece. The 3D streamers are great. Is it a piece that is meant to lie down as you appear to have photographed it? Or would you hang it on the wall?
Can you give us an idea of the size?
Love the idea of the hole in your pocket!
Wouldn’t it be great if this piece was big enough to climb or dance through!
That’s a fun idea Carla.
We should all meet up for a celebration!
Would be great to dance through the streamers! While reading your idea, in the back of my head I remembre a ball decoration attemting to look just like huge streamers!
The piece is to hang on the wall but I had none outside, where I had to take the picture. With all that metallic and shiny fabric I could not use a flash. So I tried it on dry spot of a pathway and on snow!
The piece is about 50cm by 43cm.