Tamar Perry creates a mixed media canvas with Lady Vagabond

Dear readers

Today I have the story from Tamar as to what inspired her to create this large mixed media panel of multiple items assembled together... called

 “Glimpses of NY”

As you know, New York is the home of Sir Vagabond, and also the home of the creator of this piece *wink*

From the outside, New York seems shiny to dreamers but to the locals it is dirty, dark, busy and very grey.

 

In her travels, Lady Vagabond only read about this great city, but when she finally arrived in her flying house to New York,  all she could see from above was the grey blanket of smog that covers the city, and she could barely catch glimpses of it through the cracks in the industrial cloud of what is one of the greatest cities in the world. 

To make this piece I used pieces of chipboards from my stash of leftovers, in various sizes.

 

I treated each one as a separate substrate, and crated mini pieces of art – some with rice paper, some with paint, some with stencils or stamps, or a combination. 

 

When all the parts were finished I assembled them together and attached them to each other.

 

Using the the molds that illustrate Lady Vagabond's world, I gave the flying machine bigger wings because this is New York and everything is bigger here, however one of its wings is a bit 'damaged '– as it was a long way to come from London though all weathers over the ocean.

 

I added the molds spread out over the assembly and not on top of each other to illustrate the glimpse from Lady Vagabond world hovering over the glimpses of New York.  The only colorful components in this piece are Lady herself and her books in which she can let her imagination take flight!

Regards

Tamar Perry