Piece description from the artist
I have some fragments of ideas that ruminate in my mind for years, just waiting for the moment when they make sense. One such image I had captured while at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. I loved the desperate long reach of the tree limbs to the other side bearing the weight of massive foliage. This was another piece that I tried out with a few materials and it never clicked, until I realized while laying awake one night that it would be perfect for fabric. Of course, I had to grow my fabric collection considerably to get the range of colors that I wanted. Thankfully, I was able to get done just in time right before my local fabric store closed.
This artwork was made with 79 different fabrics that were cut up into individual shapes and layered with glue.
Amanda Pearson is a mixed media artist who lives in the Twin Cities, MN (but grew up in Portland, OR). In college, she majored in Art Education and after graduating found a niche in elevating the mundane materials that are often forgotten in the back of the craft drawer. Her focus is currently on pieces created by gluing embroidery floss, but she also uses other media such as dots (made out of colored pencils or paint), glued hole punches from cardstock paper, and has even made a mosaic from recycled used gift cards. Her work requires time, and it takes a lot of it – each piece takes months to create. These pieces aim to capture a moment of time in spaces that could be considered sacred. Nature is used to represent these significant moments.
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