Water Tower #3

Water Tower #3

This piece was inspired by a photo I took in Manhattan this spring, shown below. I used a scrap of hand-painted cotton to give a gradation to the windows, and low-immersion dyeing to produce a mottled sky fabric. The other cottons are all hand-dyed too.

This green was a real challenge for me, because it is so strongly suggestive of vegetation, and I didn't want to go there. I've pretty much decided that my own theme for this series will be urban architecture. I like the idea of producing a dozen pieces, all 8.5" x 11", in a rainbow of colours. We'll see.