Made It: Rouse

After the big hullabaloo of the Women to Watch | Metals opening at the Kemper, I decided to dive back into making.  I so loved how the painted background turned out on this one that I chose a design that wouldn't completely obliterate it.

Rouse48 inches tall x 36 inches widealuminum, paint, vinyl

Lots of details ahead...

That little blue peeking out, the brushstrokes, the silver edge...mmmmm.

 When it was time to put vinyl to aluminum, I took some inspiration from a tiny collage I made a couple years ago.

Pink Fire
5 x 4 inches, paper collage and vinyl

At first it sorta turned out like a mountain, which didn't float my boat.

Floater

So I peeled off some outside orzos, contoured it, added some more here and there, and I was much happier.

The title wasn't taken from poetry, I did some good old thesaurus work with ideas of fire.  "Rouse" like "aroused" like "growing" and whatnot.  I can come up with them on my own sometimes, see?

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