Drowning People - Touchstone Batiks

 I'm at  Touchstone Center for Crafts freezing my ass of in Western Pennsylvania taking African Batik class with Gasali Adeyemo.  I got a scholarship for this workshop that covered tuition but not room and board.  I'm in a wooden structure without heat. It's charming but again I'm a SoCal girl and I'm freezing.

 I was awarded a 1 month residency at Kala today.  I'm really proud of myself.  Maybe I'm a good artist.

I made these swirls for waves in Key West and they ended up linking up all my work around the Henrietta Marie.

At Touchstone yesterday, I thought I'd Batik some of them.  You can see my control is not that great but maybe there's some charm to being out of control.  Who knows.  The idea was to make the fabric to use in the quilt later.

I had made this digital collage from scanned images in Key West.  It's the crew of the Henrietta Marie drowning.

All the images are hand painted and them assembled in photoshop.  These are pictures from my work I made in Key West.

These are the batiks I've made so far with the same concept as the work from Key West yesterday at Touchstone.  I might embroider on top of it.  Maybe not.

This one I think is good as is. It would be great to have some good pieces to enter in that San Ramon call for a one person show.

I started to work on one with the boat at the top and drowning black people in the sea to represent Middle Passage. I got