Language - Sandy

I am quite busy at present, so I am posting one I did earlier this year. I hadn't heard of Kurt Shwitters, but when I did a Google image, I was amazed to see the links with some of the current fragment textile work that is popular. When I made this I was inspired by the look of some of the collage work of Karen Stiehl Osborne.

For this piece I used pages from old dictionaries from other languages and tourist phrase books. They have been sprayed with various antiquing inks. I also stamped "cuniform" transliteration of the word "Language". and wrote the word for language from various countries. It is all fused together onto a backing fabric print that looks like writing. and unified by fusing a thin paperlike fabric over all. That fabric already has words printed on, which look like they are from vintage documents. The "heads" are also of a similar fabric in green.

gritty schwitty - Helen S

collagé is not my strong point but I thought I'd try and do some sticking down of images, tearing up old prints of my work and adding a bit of grainy texture.

new inspiration

I love all your debris finds, and wonder if you've taken it any further. These things tend to sit in my mental filing cabinets for ages before I use them.
I've been in a real slump recently, so apologies for absence. Now I'm determined to focus again and try find some inspiration. I'm not very verse with history of art ashamedly but have been looking through some images which might relate to textiles. One of the artist that I've come across recently which I thought inspiring is Kurt Shwitters. You may have already seen his work but it's worth a closer look. So the challenge, if you're interested, is to have a google of his images and see if you can make something in the style of...