Darcy Love
medium: textiles
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 Endangered Mouse 2008 Textiles |
 Trout Pond: Spring 2007 Textiles |
 Trout Pond: Dusk 2007 Textiles |
 Eggs of the Nesting Birds of the Lower Wisconsin River Valley 2008 Textiles |
 Painted Turtle 2006 Textiles |
 Dance of Life: Sandhill Crane 2001 Textiles |
 Wood Duck 2008 Textiles |
 Great Blue Heron 2004 Textiles |
 Green Heron and Dragonfly 2006 Textiles |
 Catch of the Day 2008 Textiles |
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Contact information
Artist resides in: Sauk City, WI
Email Address: darcy@merr.com
Web site: dancingbirdstudio.wordpress.com
Artist statement
With each new piece of fabric I dye, a story is revealed in the folds of manipulated cloth where colors pool with deep intensity and soften to expose the origins of their hues. This is the beginning of the story, and with each layer of images, time unfolds. Ginkgo leaves fell here, ferns grew over there, and a spotted salamander bridges the time between both. Each process of dying, printing, painting, drawing and stitching, builds an environment for the flora and fauna I love; the habitat I want to keep safe for me and to share with others. Animals I’ve observed living in harmony and conflict with other species, inextricably from these other species, dependent on one another for their very survival. These are the stories I hope to tell with my cloth.
Biography
My home and studio are in rural Dane County, Wisconsin. Since 1995 I have been working with painting and surface design on silk and other natural fibers. My work has taken me, as Artist-in-Residence, to Rocky Mountain National Park in 2003 and the St. Croix Watershed Research Station in 2008.
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