Perception Pass

Perception Pass
Who are we to say what one sees in our work?

Blue. I typically do not work with blue. Purples and greens are my colors. This week’s challenge was “Blue”, so I decided to see what would come of this. I started out with a bluish piece of wool felt and started embellishing things down. My Embellisher really hasn’t been used very much, so I thought that I would just get used to working with fabrics and fibers. The fabric I used was from a recycled jacket made of polyester/rayon blend. My intention was to make the fabric 3-D, as I had seen on Sewing with Nancy last week.

I started out fine and was having fun. My piece didn’t really look like much, but I continued playing. Not knowing what else to do, I asked my husband what he thought. He replied with out even hesitating, “It is a map!” He was actually seeing something in my work. He said, “Yes, the orange fiber is the road, the blue fiber is the river, the blue fabric the reservoir and the brownish colored fabric were mountains.” Maps are my husbands thing…he loves maps and the fact that he actually saw this in my work amazed me.

So, I decided to stick with it and just work on my “map”. I am not particularly impressed with this piece, but it sure got me to thinking about Perception. Hence the name – Perception Pass. Who are we to say what one sees in our work? Everyone perhaps, see things differently and interprets things in a special way. That is the lesson that this exercise has provided. What a valuable lesson indeed.