work ideas

green= chair frame, black= fabric cover

{disclaimer: i just sketched these out on a index card: not final sketch} cross hatch is a "wing" flap blanket

So i have been thinking about what i am going to do with my art this semester and have a few ideas. 1. i want to make a cover for this amazing comfy chair that is a folding lounge. here is a picture of my sketch the green lines are the chair (viewed from the side) and the black are the lines created by the edge of the material, making it a streamlined unit. I am drawn to the simple, clean lines and would use a white fabric that would stand up to the woods. i would also make "flaps" or wings (drawn with little cross lines) that would extend like a triangle from the feet to the head with the longest point part being in the middle so i could wrap myself up like a cucoon in this chair in the woods and just sit and think. after this idea and some puttering online i found the work of elizabeth holik and fell in love.... i could totally use a cucoon chair! so i am also reading a (depressing) book: dying of the trees: the pandemic in america's forests, and second nature,  and a small farm in maine, as well as some other similarly minded books whose exact titles are escaping me at the moment but i will later post.  i am trying to stay away from the reading but am obviously not succeeding much in that regard. 2. i've started going on looong walks in the woods and making a mental map of the stumps and other interesting features i have managed to overlook for the last 26 years of roaming these woods. i am going to make some sort of tangible map out of this, experimenting with different ideas, strongly influenced by my last semesters readings on space, place, lost, maps ect. (particularly "you are here")  and indigenous ways of directional intelligence such as carin's etc. 3. i have started a little thought listy thing to keep sane, has not worked for that but is interesting as is.  oh and yes i kicked my husband out for a trial separation! go me! onward with life.