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Leslie Schomp

This We Have Now

Inspired by: Joyce Tenneson, Fork Shaped Tree Shelley Reed, Predator/Prey (after Oudry)

wire and stitched cloth soft sculpture

8″ x 24″ x 24″

2024

This stitched sculpture is inspired by the Exquisite Corpse Surrealist drawing game. I am fascinated by creating actual and implied texture and making work that plays both as surface and form. I find that cloth “acts” like the body. It bundles, stretches and gathers t create a wide range of textures. My stitched sculptures combine human and animal bodies, skins and gestures to communicate ideas about various states of human psychology. Many of them are inspired by my research of historical and scientific botanical illustration as well as children’s fables and the variety of symbolic readings of animals in culture.

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Leslie Schomp

What Is Longing Made From

Inspired by: Unknown artist, Tapa Cloth

hair, mica, pressed bleeding heart flower, on muslin in walnut frame

12″ x 14″ x 2″

2023

I am moved by the materiality of drawings and so was drawn the natural elements of the Tapa cloth (mulberry fiber, pigment and arrowroot binder). Such natural materials and processes create, in me, a longing for the natural world and so I choose to draw a quote about these feelings I have when I see such works. I used layers of mica from a rock I found in a mine, a pressed bleeding heart from my garden, my hair and a beautiful antique mahogany wood frame I found. These materials are filled with memories, a tension between fragility and strength and a reminder that the natural world is vulnerable but everchanging.

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