Jorel Thomson
Menlo Park, CA USA
The
button eye sits in the center of darkness but there are holes in the darkness
with glints of rainbow. Rainbows trail around, the darkness flutters off and
the golden light appears.
"I did a lot of thinking about this Challenge and what through my eyes
actually meant. My first thought was to do an abstract landscape in colors
based on my physical surroundings but that didn’t really feel right to me. Then
I remembered a small tile I have, that I thought my older daughter had made in
ceramics class (although she tells me she didn’t make it, so I don’t know where
it came from). The tile has an eye painted on it and that was the starting
point for my piece. When the time came, I couldn’t find that tile and instead
used an absolutely perfect Sheila Ernst glass button. The rest of my
inspiration came from a song There’s a Light, performed by Lui Collins. When my
first child was a toddler, I joined a vocal group called Mothersong. The woman
who ran the group found wonderful songs for us to sing, which have stuck in my
mind for all these years. The theme of the song reminds me that when things
look really bad, there’s a better day around the corner and that’s what I tried
to portray with my crocheting."
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