Sometimes it seems that the process of making art is a series of making decisions. You start out with the really big decisions: what am I trying to say? what will it look like? what is the form? how many pieces in a series? And move on through a long series of smaller and smaller decisions until the piece or series is finished.

These pictures show a big day in decision making. I picked all the fabrics for my piece for Bellevue Arts Museum. Since then I have finished cutting out the peltex forms, basted them together, then taken them apart again and painted the edges of each panel. Today I began cutting out the fabrics for the fronts of the actual panels. Finally, something that the viewer will actually see when they look at the final piece!

I have 19 days until I’m scheduled to deliver and install this piece and a whole lot of work to do.

the final fabrics!