As I continued working on my muted piece, it was time to do a whole lot of tweaking! First, I made more units so I’d have enough to make it more square, rather than horizontal, as it stood when initially auditioned.
Squares from earlier units gave me a good starting point.
Getting close.
As I made more units I also paid attention to where things were landing and how I might tweak the composition. For instance, do you see the two bright orange pieces below? They definitely attract attention, and – with their current locations – I like that. Compare this to the first photo above where the small orange piece is in the top left corner. That’s not a good location for something so eye catching, so I moved it. (Of course, it was already pieced into a larger unit, so the whole unit had to move.)
Almost finished with piecing.
Piecing complete, with undulating edges. I’ll have to decide whether or not to keep those.
I was pretty happy with it at this point. I began to get a nostalgic feeling from it, because it reminded me of lightnin’ bugs coming out at dusk. (Yes, that’s how this southerner says it: lightnin’) Growing up on a farm I can remember playing outside at this time of day, right before it was too dark to see. I was thinking about all of this as I was considering titles.
Finishing tweaks coming soon.
Ellen Lindner
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