An apple began as “The forbidden fruit.” That’s why it tastes so delicious!
Mary Ellen Sinclair, 2025
22" x 22" x 21"
Town Hall, inside, 21 Milton Tpk, Milton, NY 12547
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SPONSORS
Silver: Jerry & Rosemary Wein – In Memory of Jerry Starpoli
MEDIUM
Various fabrics of a single color or with designs are cut into shapes, layered and affixed to a surface to create imagery. No paint is used.
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ARTISTS STATEMENT
My fabric art is not to “fool the eye” but to draw a viewer into taking a closer look at what they see; as art imitates life where things aren’t always as they appear.
Creating is a form of meditation that keeps me in the present moment. I envision a subject in cloth and then affix cut shapes of fabric onto a surface. Fiber is a pleasure to work with, being soft to the touch, as I feel the subtle difference of each texture’s weave passing through my fingers.
I never tire of standing back from my easel and looking at the image on my canvas for that final moment when nothing interrupts my eye, and I see an aura of energy flowing within and around the subject that gives it a life all its own.
That is when I know my work is complete.
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