Blog #1 Two Images that describe me...

Hi,

My name is Kimberlie and I am an artist. I have chosen 2 of my sculptures as the images to describe myself. This first sculpture is a "self portrait in wire". I define myself by the way I give to others as a wife, mother, girl scout leader, activist in the community, volunteer at the schools, and friend to others. So I created my body out of a heart that I covered in all of my favorite fabrics in my favorite color- purple. Irises are my favorite flower, so in my eyes are Irises... (wire inside my head). My self portrait is whimsical and free flowing because I enjoy the free flow of ideas and the fun of spontaneity.





My second image is of a quilt/sculpture that I worked last year. I love to quilt and to use my favorite flower in my quilts. In this sculpture, I combined an Iris quilt that I cut into 3 pieces with a steel sculpture of an iris. Like this sculpture, my personality is a mixture of soft and hard elements. I can be rule bound and structured in my approach to a problem, or soft and caring. And those varying emotional approaches overlap and intertwine just as the curving steel loops overlap the soft quilt that hangs on it.