Week in Review 2019 – 08/22

Detail of pill vial from Mother’s Little Helper
Now What?

It happens every time. I’m creating a new artwork, it is coming together as expected, then I do something and it feels off. What do you think?

Input Please
Mother’s Little Helper as it currently stands. What do you think?

My concept, driving Mother’s Little Helper, is a graph of the escalating deaths over time caused by the use and abuse of opioids. This is an artwork, not a technical graph for a scientific paper. I don’t want to clutter it with graph keys and numbers. In order to balance the piece I felt it needed something in the upper left hand corner. Why not a pill vial? Yet there is a disconnect between the vial and the graph of pills. What do you think? How would you connect the two? I am planning on adding the sign for poison or hazard to the prescription label.

I am linking up with Nina Marie’s Off the Wall Fridays.

By Gwyned Trefethen

I am an artist who uses fabric, thread and miscellany to create designs gifted to me by my imagination.