Artist: Rashidah Salam
Title: Carousel Magnolias No.1
Medium: Alpaca yarns, colored plastic microbeads, paper buttons and acrylic paints on canvas
Date: 2025
Dimensions: 20” (H) x 24” (W) x 1” (D)
Descriptions:
Magnolia flowers were arranged intertwined with the olives leaves in a circular carousel. The foundation of the composition of the painting started with the one-inch grids through the dots going across and down on the canvas. The arrangement of the flowers and olive leaves in the painting was to mimic the Victorian, Baroque and Rococo periods. The olive leaves and magnolias were duplicated with the wool alpaca yarns drawing on parchments papers and were then embellished with shiny colored plastic microbeads. The colors of the microbeads mimicked the colors painted on the flowers. Selected patterns were raised for the tactile textures, a series of cut-out layers of thin papers were glued on the patterns. Hand drawn alpaca yarns to create Ashoka flowers patterns were added as a finished touch wrapped on the embellished patterns as a metaphor of grow and revival.
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