Acrylic and Chainstitch Embroidery on stretched canvas

16”x20”

I’ve been wanting to explore Goldenrod in a slightly non-traditional color way, and after painting the rusty sky and deep purple waters, I knew this was the piece for it. As is the case with most of my paintstitches, I’m considering the plant in the foreground as the main character in this drama. The sun is setting behind us, the viewers, and we are watching the Goldenrod experience it. Of course here the full golden moon is present, and I am pondering the relationship between it the swaying Goldenrod. Do they follow it, honor it, dance to it, sing about it, bow beneath it like we do?

I am enamored with these dusty rose skies lately. Sometimes the sky feels this way over the Lake when the sun rises or sets for no apparent reason! But last summer was full of smoke from Canadian wildfires, and our skies looked like this a lot. I was not intending to recreate that slightly apocalyptic feel in this piece, but I think there’s no denying that those surreal smoky skies penetrated my subconscious. Maybe it is hopeful, maybe the Goldenrod will thrive and dance under these new red skies!