ARTIST STATEMENT:
These two-sided feather and inkwell were influenced by the works of Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe: Hope (is the thing with feathers" by Dickinson, and The Raven by Poe. This work was initially created for and juried into a show called Fabulous Forgeries: The Renaissance, as both of these poets were part of the American Renaissance.

TECHNIQUE:
The feather is two-sided embroidery with cotton floss on organza. The spine of the feather is couch-stitched cotton floss over aluminum wire, coated in resin around the base. The inkwell is a vintage pill bottle encapsulated with glass seed beads woven in right-angle weave around the body and peyote stitch around the neck. The bottle is filled with lead weights and organza set in resin to keep the bottle from tipping over.

MATERIALS:
Cotton, organza, glass, aluminum, plastic bottle, resin, lead weights, fray check.

PHOTO CREDIT:
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